Severin Carrell

And is paying the price for a crime she didn't commit.

She's had a very torrid and difficult week since the true extent of Peter Murrell's embezzlement became clear, and also the extent to which the things that he's paid for by using stolen SNP money were embedded into their domestic life.

Things that she carried, things that she wore, things that she drank from, things that she or he will have made food with.

It must be very painful for her.

I think it's just an extraordinary drama.

It's an epic Greek tragedy.

In a way, it was actually classic Nicola Sturgeon.

This is the Nicola Sturgeon that we've been used to watching.

She had that combination of her legal training and decades of responding to very challenging situations by having a very clear control of a narrative.

But also I felt that there were times where she was clearly showing the toll that it had on her.

There were very clear moments where she was getting emotional, both angry but also upset emotionally.

moments where she was clearly fighting tears.

This is a man that she had shared her life with for the best part of 20 years, who was revealed in the public eye in quite graphic way of being responsible for the most extraordinary degree of deceit and deception involving her.

But also, you also got another sense that Nicola Sturgeon was adopting that persona which a lot of her critics find most difficult.

There's a kind of poor me tendency in the way that she responds to a lot of questions.

And at times you felt that she hadn't quite read the room.

The question about rehabilitating herself rather, I'm afraid, presupposes that she has actually done something wrong.

And on the key question about what Murrell did, the crimes he committed, she has been cleared.

But she will know that so many people believe that she has either been complicit or deliberately naive or was somehow implicated in what Murrell had done.

And I think for her, it's about being determined to shape and control her own narrative.