{"id":42364,"date":"2023-06-22T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2023-06-22T22:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2023\/06\/22\/nicola-sturgeon-indicates-she-will-not-resign-from-the-snp\/"},"modified":"2023-06-22T22:48:26","modified_gmt":"2023-06-22T22:48:26","slug":"nicola-sturgeon-indicates-she-will-not-resign-from-the-snp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=42364","title":{"rendered":"Nicola Sturgeon indicates she will not resign from the SNP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Nicola Sturgeon has said the interests of the SNP are \u201cas close to my heart as is possible\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ms Sturgeon spoke as she returned to the Scottish Parliament for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-65964729\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">first time since being arrested as part of an investigation into SNP finances.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The former first minister was released without charge after being questioned by Police Scotland for more than seven hours last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">She told reporters at Holyrood that she was &#8220;absolutely certain&#8221; she had done nothing wrong, while indicating that she would not resign from the SNP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Ms Sturgeon, who stood down as both party leader and first minister in March, said the party had been her life and she would always act in its best interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Humza Yousaf, Ms Sturgeon\u2019s successor as first minister, has been under pressure from opposition parties and some within the SNP to suspend Ms Sturgeon while the police investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-scotland-65966051?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Nicola Sturgeon has said the interests of the SNP are \u201cas close to my heart as is possible\u201d. Ms Sturgeon spoke as she returned to the Scottish Parliament for &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42364"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/42365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}