Nicola Sturgeon has opened up about her miscarriage and about how she was "deeply conflicted" about becoming a mother. ‌

The former first minister revealed how the loss of her baby would be something she would always mourn, in her book published in The Times. ‌

In heartbreaking detail, she described how she and her estranged husband Peter Murrell painfully lost their unborn child in 2011. The ex-SNP leader also said she would have named the child Isla Margaret, in tribute to her grandmother. ‌

Her account of her loss has been recounted in brutal honesty in extracts from her new book, Frankly, due to be released next week.

She described the moment she found out she was pregnant with Peter being "overjoyed". However, she struggled more to be happy about it and wrote how she st

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