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The Holyrood cross-party committee has said the First Minister Nicola Sturgeon misled the inquiry into complaints against former SNP leader Alex Salmond. And we get to grips with the exciting world of vaccine global supply chains.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.6 | Hello, it's 1015 on Thursday night, and we had recorded today's episode of |
| 0:09.6 | newscast and it was all ready to go and then breaking news from the Scottish Parliament |
| 0:15.6 | from the inquiry into the Scottish government's handling of claims of |
| 0:20.3 | sexual harassment against the previous first minister Alex Sammond and the |
| 0:25.4 | breaking news tonight is all about the current first minister Nicholas |
| 0:29.9 | Sturgeon and Nick Erdley is there to tell us what is happening. |
| 0:34.3 | What is this committee decided or maybe nearly decided Nick? |
| 0:38.0 | Hey Adam, well basically they've decided tonight that |
| 0:41.4 | Nicholas Sturgeon misled them when she gave evidence a couple of weeks ago. |
| 0:45.1 | You might remember we chatted after she had that eight hour mammoth session where, you know, she |
| 0:50.3 | talked about anything and everything it felt like about what happened in this |
| 0:53.9 | process but the committee was meeting tonight to discuss its final report that final report |
| 0:59.8 | has not been published we don't have it we won't get it until Tuesday, but five to four, so a narrow majority, |
| 1:06.4 | they've decided that in her evidence, Nikolaed them and that's going to cause, you know, stushy you know what a week before the |
| 1:15.1 | Scottish Parliament breaks up for the election and stushy is the Scottish word for |
| 1:19.4 | controversy or row yeah right so we haven't seen this report. How do you know what it says? |
| 1:26.5 | Well sources close to the committee have confirmed to us that that was the finding. |
| 1:32.0 | It's basically along party lines. So this committee is split between |
| 1:36.5 | the SMP members, there's four of them, and the opposition members, there's five of them, |
| 1:41.2 | two Tories, one Labour, one Lib dem in an independent and the five have voted that she did |
| 1:46.6 | mislead the committee when she gave her evidence the four SMP members voted that she didn't |
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