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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Humza Yousaf: I don’t believe Sturgeon knew arrests pending before resignation

Humza Yousaf, wearing pale blue button-down cotton shirt, campaigns in Rutherglen with byelection candidate Katy Loudon, 5 August 2023
Humza Yousaf, pictured in Rutherglen on Saturday with the byelection candidate Katy Loudon, said he was ‘out every weekend knocking doors’ to counter the threat from Scottish Labour. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Humza Yousaf has acknowledged that “everybody” wondered if the real reason for Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation was because she knew that she and her husband were about to be arrested as part of the police inquiry into Scottish National party finances.

In his first appearance at the Edinburgh festival fringe as Scotland’s first minister, Yousaf also admitted he had felt “a little bit” las if he had ended up answering for issues around party transparency that were not his fault.

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