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Too many questions remain over Sturgeon’s meetings with Salmond

I’VE never seen the meeting room so packed out for the post-First Minister’s Questions government briefing as it was on Thursday.

With FMQs dominated by Nicola Sturgeon’s meetings with her predecessor Alex Salmond, at which they discussed the allegations of sexual misconduct which the latter strongly denies, you’d think it would have all been said already.

But questions remained — and still remain — unanswered.

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