The biggest revelations from Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir – from JK Rowling to arrest and bullying
Carefully discussing as part of the Operation Branch, led to a failed proposal for Scottish independence, Nicola Sturgeon’s office and the years after him were far from ordinary.
In his long -awaited memories, obviously, the former Scottish Minister of Scottish, his former husband Peter Murrell, shared with the house of raids and his predecessor Alex Salmond, and his relationship with the last months of work that makes shedding light on the transfers of the transfers.
HereIndependent MS looks at the fundamental inferences from Sturgeon’s explosive memories.
When the police raided his house, ‘completely disbelief’
The former SNP leader summarized his overwhelming feelings when he was exposed to a police raid on an investigation that resulted in the arrest of his husband in April 2024. He said he felt “completely disbelief” when the raid took place.
Iyle With the police tents around him, he was more like a murder location than the security place he was always for me. He was destroyed, mortgage, confused and horrified, ”he wrote.
Following the following weeks, Sturgeon felt that he fell into the plan of a dystopic novel ”.
He also said that his arrest, which was made two months later, was the “worst day ve and defined it as an experience that he was not sure of. [she] MS Sturgeon was later cleaned, but his ex -husband was accused of passing money.
Trans line in the office dominating the last months
Ms. Sturgeon used her memories to shed light on the division of trans rights that dominated her last months in the office, which is something she describes as “Rancor and division” time.
While admitting that many have legitimate concerns about women’s fields, he argued that the discussion was ında kidnapped by the right fastest sounds ”.
“Inappropriate truth”, “Most of the vocal skin of trans rights, most of the vocal leather, when the surface is drawn, it turns out to be angry homophobes. Some of them are racist. And ironic … More than a few are deeply enemies of women.”
However, the former SNP leader admitted that he regretted how people are trying to make legislated to make it easier to change gender, and when he realized how polarizing the discussion had become a “stagnation button, he tried to reach an agreement.
He said that he still argued in favor of the gender identity, and said that he wished him to target more consensus on the subject.
Sturgeon also criticized JK Rowling, one of the greatest critics of gender rights after a picture of a T -shirt of Harry Potter writer, “Nicola Sturgeon, the destructive of women’s rights”.
He said: “It was deep ironic that those who exposed me to this level of hatred and the enemy of women often claimed that they did so for the interests of women’s security.”
My panda still brings a ’emotion torrent’
During the pandemi, the former first minister, who left Scotland’s leading challenges naked, said that he was “almost indescribable” and “physically and mentally” a heavy wage ” – he found himself asleep for only three or four hours in the first locking.
He also said that during his appearance in front of the Covid-19 investigation, he had come to a fault in a dangerous way, and that the locking would be perili forever for fear of saving more lives before.
Speaking when he was drowned in tears while giving evidence, Mrs. Sturgeon wrote: “I wanted professional help in my life for the first time. He took a few consultancy sessions to withdraw myself from the threshold.”
Rumors about a relationship with French diplomat
Mrs Sturgeon’s book also saw the address of what he said that he had a lesbian relationship with a French diplomat, saying that speculation was caused by homophobia.
“For many of those who sell it, it means ‘lesbian’ and ‘gay’ insult.
The politician also said that he had never seen sexuality as a duo.
“Long -term relationships with men have announced for more than thirty years of my life, but I have never thought of sexuality as a double, including himself. Moreover, sexual relations should be special issues.”
Alex Salmond and Independence White Paper
Ms. Sturgeon suggests that as the first minister and former mentor, his predecessor Alex Salmond did not make his heavy lifting share before the 2014 Scottish Independence referendum and accused him of not reading the white article on independence.
He remembers that he is responsible for preparing the paper he said, çalıştır overcoming it with an incredible sense of amazing ”and that he says“ absolute despair ”.
Sturgeon, “I went to the floor of my office, I cried and fought to breathe. It was definitely a kind of panic attack,” Sturgeon wrote Sturgeon.
Later, Mr. Salmond said that the document showed a little interest to the details: ım I promised that he would read on the plane. I knew his goodwill would not contact with champagne on the first flight. ”
‘Witch Hunt’ MSPs investigated Sturgeon ‘managed by Salmond’
Ms. Sturgeon believes that there are some MSPs who investigate the Scottish government to address the allegations of sexual harassment against Alex Salmond. It takes direction from him.
Mr. Salmond or his allies think that he thought he had guided some opposition MSPs about what he would ask him, and that he thought his rivals accused him of a “witch hunt” against him in his private Holyrood committee.
The committee ultimately found that Mrs Sturgeon misleaded the Scottish Parliament on the Salmond investigation.
However, the investigation, which is “really important ,, was an independent investigation by Senior Irish lawyer James Hamilton, which avoided breaking the ministerial code.
“From the first day, it was clear that some of the opposition members of the committee were less interested in identifying the facts or making sure that the lessons have been learned, and they were much less interested than finding a way to blame me all,” he wrote.
“I have been told and I believe that this is true, some of the opposition MSPs from Alex – probably through a vehicle – that they have directed the points to be followed and the questions to be asked.”
Sturgeon also said that his life was a “bruising section” because he accused Mr Salmond of creating a “conspiracy theory” to take into account his abuse allegations that he was cleared in court.
