Nigel Farage and Nicola Sturgeon

Former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon has just offered a scathing analysis of Nigel Farage’s character, even calling him “odious”.

While promoting the release of her new memoir, the ex-SNP leader said the Reform UK chief has a “very, very fragile ego” and claimed he has a problem around women.

Speaking to ITV News, she said: “This is my impression – other people might have a different view of him – he just comes across as someone who has a very, very fragile ego, somebody who is not particularly comfortable, particularly around women.”

Interviewer Julie Etchingham pointed out Sturgeon calls Farage “odious” in her new book, Frankly.

Sturgeon replied: “In the 2015 leaders’ debate, just before we went on air that night, I just remember hearing him telling somebody how much he had had to drink in the green rooms beforehand that night.

“It just felt like this kind of bravado, and just not very pleasant. But, you know, that’s my........

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