Nicola Sturgeon has described her arrest by police investigating the SNP’s finances as the worst day of her life.

Scotland’s former first minister says being questioned by officers as an experience she is not sure she “will ever get over” in an extract from her upcoming memoir published in The Times.

She also writes about rumours around her sexuality, which she describes as not being “binary”, the pain of suffering a miscarriage, and her regret and never bearing a child.

Sturgeon reveals that she was lying in bed at 7am when she realised police officers were in the house on the day her husband was arrested – April 5, 2023.

Her husband, the SNP’s former chief executive Peter Murrell, would be charged with embezzling party funds.

She says she was “in despair”.

Amid speculation that sh

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