Nicola Sturgeon opens up on suffering miscarriage and reveals 'I always felt it was a girl'

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Nicola Sturgeon has spoken in emotional detail about the miscarriage she suffered at the age of 40 in 2010. ‌

Speaking on a primetime ITV News interview tonight, the former first minister admitted she still carried a "sense of guilt" following her miscarriage as she had felt "conflicted about the pregnancy". ‌

Sturgeon, who was then serving as deputy first minister, suffered a miscarriage on December 30, 2010 and spent the morning of Hogmanay at the early pregnancy clinic at Glasgow Royal Infirmary with her husband Peter Murrell. ‌

Speaking to ITV News presenter Julie Etchingham, the ex-SNP leader said: "To this day and possibly forever, I carry a sense of guilt that I miscarried the baby because I had been conflicted about the pregnancy. It was very close to the 2011