Labour leader and head of party in Scotland say it would be immaterial if breach not deliberate
Nicola Sturgeon should resign if a Holyrood inquiry finds that she breached the ministerial code, whether or not it concludes she did so deliberately, according to Keir Starmer and Anas Sarwar.
The leaders of UK and Scottish Labour were responding to leaks on Thursday night, which suggested that the special Holyrood committee investigating the Scottish government’s handling of harassment allegations against Alex Salmond had concluded by a narrow majority that Sturgeon gave an “inaccurate” account of her meetings with Salmond in 2018 during evidence on oath to MSPs earlier this month.
