The niece of Alex Salmond has said she has “nothing” to say to Nicola Sturgeon as she insisted her family would “fight on” to clear the former SNP leader’s name.
Christina Hendry has given the clearest indication yet the Salmonds intend to pursue an outstanding legal action relating to the Scottish Government’s botched investigation into sexual harassment complaints made against the ex-first minister.
The court action has been frozen until May 12 to allow for Salmond’s widow Moira to be appointed as the executor of his estate.
Once that process is complete she will have legal authority to instruct lawyers to continue suing the government over its botched investigation into harassment complaints against her husband.
Hendry, 29, announced last week was aiming to stand for the Alba Party at the 2026 Holyrood election in her uncle’s old constituency in Buchan.
“I want to make sure that I continue what he started,” she told the Mail on Sunday.
Asked what she would say to Sturgeon, Hendry said: “To be quite honest, I have nothing to say to Nicola Sturgeon. I think we’ve all just maybe got to reflect back on ourselves and things that we’ve done.”
Salmond faced allegations in 2018 from two civil servants of historic sexual harassment, which he strongly denied.
An internal Scottish Government investigation was later found to be unlawful after the former first minister launched a legal action.
A separate criminal investigation led to Salmond standing trial in March 2020 accused of multiple counts of sexual assault and harassment. He was cleared of all charges.
The episode ended the decades-long friendship between Salmond and Sturgeon.
Hendry, who was studying in Belfast at the time, said: “It was obviously a really, really hard time. But I think as a family, one thing we’re very good at is sticking together. And I do think as a as a family as well, we are resilient, and I think we partly got some resilience from Uncle Alec.
“He always kept going even the most like difficult times.”
Salmond died suddenly on October 12 in North Macedonia and tributes poured in from politicians of all stripes.
But some comments were less welcomed by Salmond’s family. Hendry said: “I felt a lot of frustration, because there’s been people, obviously, recently, who been saying things about him after he died, but where were they in the past few years?
“They didn’t publicly support him in the past few years, I mean, the SNP tried to distance themselves from him.
“They tried to remove him from SNP history. There’s so many people who are only in the jobs they’re in because of the hard work and the sheer determination that my uncle had.”
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