Scotland’s former leader addresses conflict with Salmond and rumours of a lesbian affair, but stops short of full disclosure

Nicola Sturgeon has revealed the bombshell moment she knew her decades-long friendship with Alex Salmond was over for good in the latest extract from her new memoir, Frankly.

Former first minister uses new biography to dispel rumours of ‘torrid lesbian affair’

Nicola Sturgeon has had something of an epiphany in recent days - she shouldn't have pushed so hard on her calamitous gender reforms.

Scotland’s former leader addresses conflict with Salmond and rumours of a lesbian affair, but stops short of full disclosure

Here, The Independent looks at the key takeaways from Nicola Sturgeon’s explosive memoir, Frankly

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Many of her admirers gloss over her desire to break up the UK as Scotland’s first minister. But in her memoir, it plays a starring role, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle

In new memoir, former Scottish first minister wrote she had ‘never considered sexuality, my own included, to be binary’