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Salmond
/ ˈsæmənd /
noun
Alex ( ander Elliot Anderson ). born 1954, Scottish Nationalist politician; first minister of the Scottish Parliament from 2007
Example Sentences
Alex Salmond's family is determined to "defend his name" in legal action against the Scottish government, his niece has said.
When he died aged 69 last year, Salmond had been suing the Scottish government over a botched investigation into harassment complaints made about him.
Nicola Sturgeon, who succeeded Salmond as first minister, denied claims of a conspiracy in her new memoir, which was highly critical of her former mentor.
Salmond, who died of a heart attack in October 2024 while attending a conference in North Macedonia, was suing the government for misfeasance - a civil law term that means the wrongful exercise of lawful authority.
In her book, Sturgeon said the emergence of messages between women who made allegations against Salmond and SNP staff members was inaccurately "spun" by the Alba founder to suggest people had been "conspiring to bring him down".
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