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Watch Connor Gillies' reaction and analysis in full below.Ĭontinuing to speak to reporters in Edinburgh, the former Scottish FM says she has been "deeply touched by the support I've had from people I know, from people in the wider public that I've never met in recent days".Īsked if she is making life difficult for her successor, Humza Yousaf, Ms Sturgeon says there is a "process under way that I am not in control of".Īddressing why she is returning to Holyrood rather than keeping her head down and letting Mr Yousaf get on with governing Scotland, she says: "I am doing these things in order to subject myself to the scrutiny that you're all entitled to subject me to as an elected politician. "So this was Nicola Sturgeon trying to draw a line under this investigation which is clearly continuing." "The reason, she says, is if she was to take a step back, albeit on a temporary basis, then that may undermine her position that she is innocent of any wrongdoing. "She plans to stay there no matter how much of a distraction that becomes for the new leader, Humza Yousaf.
"But when questioned during that exchange over the course of the last 20 minutes or so, she was clear that she is not intending to step back temporarily from the SNP at all. "She said clearly this had not been an easy time for her - she wasn't wanting to look for sympathy here. "Questions focusing on the SNP's funding and its finances, questions as part of a police probe that has dated back more than two years now, culminating in her arrest, that has also witnessed the arrest of her husband and the then treasurer of the SNP. "This was her trying to draw a line under that very difficult period she endured more than one week ago when she presented herself at a police station and subjected herself under police arrest to more than seven hours of questions.
"Many people have been asking over the course of the last week when Nicola Sturgeon would come and answer questions, and this was that moment," he adds. "This has been a circus that has been a long time coming," says Sky News' Scotland correspondent Connor Gillies, giving his immediate reaction to Nicola Sturgeon's press conference at Holyrood.
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