Nicola Sturgeon has blasted the “nasty” fringe of the independence movement in the wake of a BBC journalist getting verbally attacked outside an event. The First Minister claimed the same hardline nationalists would have called her a "traitor" for not being “pure” enough on independence.
In a light hearted moment speaking to football journalist Graham Spiers, she also mocked Twitter lies about her by referring to the “parallel lives” she was supposedly living. Pro-independence campaigners were condemned after yelling “traitor” and “scumbag rat” at BBC Scotland Editor James Cook outside a Tory leadership hustings.
Cook’s treatment again raised the issue of the behaviour of a small minority of pro-independence supporters. In an interview at the Edinburgh Festival, Spiers raised the abuse with Sturgeon.
