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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

Nicola Sturgeon: I understand why people doubt my ignorance of alleged SNP embezzlement

Nicola Sturgeon speaking outside her house with microphones pointed at her
Nicola Sturgeon speaks to reporters outside her house after being cleared of fraud allegations. Photograph: Stuart Wallace/Rex/Shutterstock

Nicola Sturgeon has said she fully understands why many people find it hard to believe she had no idea about alleged embezzlement within the Scottish National party given the close links to her domestic life, but has insisted this is the case.

Speaking to the Guardian’s Politics Weekly UK podcast, the former Scottish first minister said her relaxed demeanour in the period directly after she stepped down as first minister, weeks before police searched the home she shared with her then husband, Peter Murrell, would have been impossible if she had suspected things were amiss.

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