Nicola Sturgeon – progressive icon, feminist champion, scourge of corrupt Tories – is, almost by definition, incapable of wrongdoing. As she insisted after her arrest on Sunday: ‘I know beyond doubt that I am in fact innocent of any wrongdoing.’ It is her truth. Her MSPs agree and have, we’re told, sent her flowers to soothe her distress at this injustice.
It was therefore something of an inconvenience that Police Scotland noted in their press statement on Sunday that the former FM had been ‘arrested as a suspect’ in their investigation into the funds and fundraising of the Scottish National Party. She was released seven hours later without charge and with the police reminding reporters and social media sleuths that this is an ongoing criminal investigation.
But it really didn’t sound good, did it? So the deputy leader of the SNP, Keith Brown, suggested that the police misspoke when they used the ‘a’ word.
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