Allies of Alex Salmond have hit back at Nicola Sturgeon's claims he may have leaked details of his own sexual misconduct saga.
The ex-SNP leader and Alba Party founder was cleared in 2020 of 13 sexual offence charges, including attempted rape, though his lawyer conceded during the trial that his client could have been a 'better man'.
The latest extract from Sturgeon's soon-to-be published memoir, Frankly, centres around how Salmond reacted to multiple allegations of sexual misconduct levelled against him in 2018 - many of which made their way into the press.
In the book Sturgeon denies any responsibility for the leaks and says that she does not know who was behind them.
Controversially, she also claims in her memoir that it would have been 'classic Alex' to have made the leaks himself.
