If you had hoped for dynamite from Alex Salmond’s first public outing in the Sturgeon affair, you will have been disappointed, for the first few hours at least.
Instead, the usually smug Salmond came across calm, measured and even demure at times. And always polite, particularly to the committee convener, Linda Fabiani, even during his coughing fit.
Yet that does not mean the former first minister was anything other than dangerous. You might say lethal, certainly cunning. It’s just that it took a few hours before today’s Committee hearing at Holyrood – not helped by some pretty awful questions from MSPs – got under the skin of what Salmond claims is the SNP government’s unlawful investigation of sexual harassment claims made against him.
