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Sturgeon fights on ­– but at what cost?

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

27 March 2021

9:00 AM

A year ago this week Alex Salmond was acquitted on all 13 charges in his sexual assault trial. In normal times the conclusion of the most significant political trial since the Thorpe affair in 1979 would have dominated the news for weeks. Instead, the story was overshadowed by the start of the UK’s first lockdown.

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