Nicola Sturgeon will not be suspended from the Scottish National Party by the First Minister of Scotland after her arrest.

Scotland’s current First Minister has opted to stand by his predecessor, saying that there is no reason to suspend Nicola Sturgeon from the Scottish National Party. The pressure to oust Sturgeon comes after her arrest and subsequent release on Sunday as part of a government investigation into the party’s finances.

The Former Scottish First Minister was arrested and held for questioning for more than 7 hours and then released without charge pending further investigation, according to the Police. Now, all of this is in relation to an investigation into the funding and finances of the Scottish National Party and specifically what happened to 660,000 Pounds that had been earmarked for Scottish independence campaigning according to the British Press Association.

In a statement, Nicola Sturgeon said that the situation was deeply distressing, but that she is innocent and that she is “grateful that so many continue to show faith in me and appreciate that I would never do anything to harm either the SNP or the Country”. She also says that she would continue to sit as a member of the Scottish parliament, but some in her own party are suggesting that she ought to resign her party membership, at least temporarily. Her resignation in late February as First Minister and leader of her Party came as a shock to British politics in part because it was just in January that she was being asked about the sudden resignation of the New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and Sturgeon insisted that she still had plenty left in the tank to give and she ever got to the point where she has given the job everything it deserves she would recognize it as a good point to step down.

Howevr, just a few weeks after Jacinda Ardern’s resignation, Sturgeon heself was resigning as First Minister. Now, in her parting Press Conference she denied point blank that the Police investigation had anything to do with her decision to resign. All of this though, is undoubtedly a blow to her party and the current leader of the SNP and the First Minister Humza Yousaf, on Friday reacted to the Resignation as MP of former Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, tweeting that West-Minster is consumed with this third rate soap opera. Well now he has his own soap opera to contend with