Nicola Sturgeon has revealed her estranged husband Peter Murrell put her ‘in considerable peril’ as she vowed not to ‘hide away’ after the former SNP chief executive’s guilty plea.
The former first minister insisted she had ‘done nothing wrong’ after Murrell admitted embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP, and claimed she had been unfairly targeted in the fallout from the scandal.
The extraordinary monologue came less than 24 hours after Ms Sturgeon declined to answer reporters’ questions at a book festival in Ireland, where she described the scandal as the ‘worst week’ of her life.
Speaking at Hay Festival in Hay-on-Wye, she
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