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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics podcast. I'm Cindy

You and this is a Sunday roundup. This morning, Andrew Maher spoke to Nicholas Sturgeon,

the First Minister of Scotland. A major feature of the interview was the continuing route between Sturgeon and her predecessor, Alex Salmond.

Summond was put on trial for multiple allegations of sexual misconduct in early 2020, after which he was acquitted of all charges.

A Hollywood inquiry is being conducted into the handling of the complaints made against Salmond, who has

accused surgeon of misleading the Scottish Parliament.

Your predecessor and former friend has said that your account of this is, and I quote,

simply untrue, manifestly untrue, untenable, parliament has been repeatedly misled.

What did you think when you saw those words? I don't accept that and I will refute that vigorously.

Look, questions have been raised about my handling of sexual harassment claims made about my predecessor.

It's right that I am properly scrutinised on that. I had hoped that I would be before the committee

conducting this inquiry on Tuesday this week. Unfortunately, that's been delayed by a couple of

weeks. But I'll sit before that committee and I will refute all of those accusations and I will

set out my account of what happened, given the very difficult situation that I faced. And people

can make their own judgments on that.

But what I will never do, what I will never do is apologise for doing everything I could to make sure that claims,

complaints about sexual harassment were investigated, that they weren't simply swept under the carpet

because of the seniority and the

powerful position of the person who was subject to them. Your spokesman said that Mr Salmond is,

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