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Nicola Sturgeon has admitted many Scots "struggle" to believe the timing of her resignation as First Minister was not linked to a police investigation into SNP finances . ‌

"The idea that if I had known what was about to unfold, that I would be able to function at all, is nonsensical. No, I didn't know," she told a Guardian podcast . ‌

Sturgeon was questioned by detectives in June 2023 as part of Operation Branchform but was later told she would face no further action. ‌

The former SNP leader had stunned the political world in February 2023 when she used a hastily arranged press conference at Bute House to announce she was standing down after nine years in the top job.

But on April 5 that year - just days after the Nationalists chose Humza Yousaf as

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