The First Minister said he told Salmond his behaviour was 'not on' when he was 'quite brisk with people'.
John Swinney has said he also intervened to stop Alex Salmond 's bullying when he was SNP leader. The First Minister said he told Salmond his behaviour was "not on" when he was "quite brisk with people".
Swinney told BBC Scotland's The Sunday Show: "I think it's pretty well documented that Alex could be quite brisk with people and sometimes we all witnessed that. And sometimes we all had to say: 'Look, that's not on'. And that's the way it was."In an interview with the Financial Times, Sturgeon had said Salmond was a great debater but also a bully. She said: “He would be really rough on people. Many times I intervened to stop him.
Salmond died in October last year after suffering a heart attack in North Macedonia. Sturgeon paid tribute to him when he died but was not invited to the funeral and did not attend a Holyrood condolences debate. The pair fell out after Sturgeon's government pursued sexual harassment allegations against Salmond.
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