Sturgeon: I didn’t know who Scottish Secretary Alister Jack was
Ms Sturgeon instructed an viewers on the Aye Write ebook pageant within the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow on Friday night she didn’t know who Alister Jack was after he had been appointed by Boris Johnson.
The revelation got here as a part of an in dialog occasion with comic Janey Godley to debate her new novel.
Ms Sturgeon and Godley mentioned one of many now notorious voiceover clips Godley grew to become recognized for the place she pretended to be Nicola Sturgeon when Boris Johnson tried to usher her into Bute House in 2019 when he grew to become Prime Minister.
Ms Sturgeon stated she didn’t know who Mr Jack was and she or he first met him on the steps of Bute House.
She stated: “I hadn’t met him before. I literally had no idea who he was.
“I just thought: ‘Who are you?’
“That was also the time Boris left by the back door.”
Ms Sturgeon additionally revealed that they had “kind of kidnapped” Mr Jack on his first go to to Bute House in 2019.
She stated: “In between him (Boris Johnson) arriving and him leaving, we kind of kidnapped Alister Jack.
“But that’s another story for another time,” she joked.
“I’ll leave that one for the memoir.”
Ms Sturgeon, who’s going through questions over her celebration’s monetary administration whereas she was chief and first minister, stated the occasion was the “best therapy” she had had in a very long time.
Friday’s occasion ended with Godley performing a particular voiceover which acknowledged the “stress” Ms Sturgeon had been underneath in latest weeks on account of the police investigation into the SNP’s funds and the arrest of her husband, ex-SNP chief govt, Peter Murrell.