Getty ImagesThe couple have been together for 20 years, they were married in 2010.
Nicola Sturgeon was deputy first minister at the time, Peter Murrell was SNP chief executive – they were very much seen as the power couple of Scottish politics but today neither of them are in power and they are no longer a couple.
But they are still friends, still living in the same house, but they have effectively been separated for some time according to a statement from Nicola Sturgeon today.
She said she was bringing people up to speed.
Peter Murrell is facing charges of embezzlement as part of the police investigation Operation Branchform. Nicola Sturgeon was arrested, released without charge and says she has done nothing wrong.
The whole thing has been hanging over them for years now.
It can’t have been easy maintaining a marriage through that, although that private side of it is really none of my business, and interestingly none of the other political parties have commented on this today.
But this split has been part of rumour and gossip around Scottish politics for some time – it’s public now and someone close to the former First Minister said to me that is about Nicola Sturgeon taking control of her own story.
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