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Salmond Family Rebukes Sturgeon Memoir and Prepares Legal Challenge

The family’s challenge will focus on a 2019 judicial review that deemed the Scottish Government’s internal probe unlawful.

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Alex Salmond is accused of having been a bully and a drunk in Nicola Sturgeon’s memoir
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Overview

  • In Frankly, Sturgeon accuses Salmond of leaking the 2018 harassment investigation, neglecting the 2013 independence White Paper and exhibiting bullying and alcoholic behavior after the 2014 referendum.
  • Christina Hendry and other Salmond relatives have denounced those portrayals as opportunistic posthumous smears that have caused distress to his widow and family.
  • Alba leader Kenny MacAskill and other Salmond allies echoed the family’s criticism, accusing Sturgeon of dishonoring his legacy for personal and political gain.
  • Mrs Salmond has appointed a King’s Counsel, two junior lawyers and an investigator to revive litigation against the Scottish Government over its flawed internal probe.
  • Sturgeon has defended her memoir and denied any orchestrated campaign against Salmond, and the Scottish Government has yet to respond in detail to the renewed legal action.