Sturgeon says Murrell embezzlement leaves her serving 400,000 News Uk

Nicola Sturgeon told News Uk she feels like she is “serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit” after her estranged husband Peter Murrell admitted embezzling £400,000 from the SNP. She spoke to the days after the admission, and the interview was set to air on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg at 09:00.

Sturgeon and Murrell

Sturgeon said, “I'm not going to apologise for somebody else's crimes,” and added, when asked whether she is angry with Murrell, “I don't think that even begins to cover it.” She said she had been “deceived, lied to, I've been betrayed,” keeping the focus on the personal fallout from the admission.

The former Scottish First Minister’s comments also keep attention on the party she led for years, because the embezzlement admission concerns funds taken from the SNP. That detail sits alongside the broader public setting of the interview, which was scheduled as part of Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg

Laura Kuenssberg was due to question Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden and shadow home secretary Chris Philp on the programme. The panel was set to include Tory MP Jeremy Hunt, Labour MP Rosena Allin-Khan and broadcaster Aasmah Mir.

Earlier in the week, new figures showed that the number of 16 to 24-year-olds not in employment, education or training had risen to more than one million, reaching a 12-year high. The programme brought that labour-market figure into the same Sunday broadcast as Sturgeon’s remarks, linking a personal scandal and a separate national data point in one session.

Laura Kuenssberg at 09:00

For viewers, the practical next step was the broadcast itself at 09:00, where Sturgeon’s interview was scheduled to run in full. Her words leave one clear fact in place: she is answering for the damage around Murrell’s admission without accepting responsibility for it herself.