Whether you believe Alex Salmond’s version of events or Nicola Sturgeon’s, the public battle between the former first minister of Scotland and the current holder of that post is a welcome distraction from the endless news about Covid-19.
Will Sturgeon be forced to resign? I doubt it. Did Salmond get away with sexual harassment? We won’t know because the government investigation was halted. Was the process botched? Probably.
Then Salmond was charged with multiple counts of sexual assault, including attempted rape. He was cleared of all 13 charges – all alleged to have happened while he was first minister – after a trial last March. (see bbc website here )
Should we care about the outcome of two current inquiries, one by a committee of MSPs and another by James Hamilton QC, Ireland’s former director of public prosecutions? Most definitely.
On the one hand you have Salmond alleging all kinds of conspiracy to remove him from office and trash his reputation, on the other you have Sturgeon claiming that she acted in good faith by weighing up the legal advice her government received and deciding to go ahead with the prosecution of a case that proved to be weak.
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