Author: Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent

Police are investigating a new allegation of sexual assault against the former first minister of Scotland Alex Salmond. Police Scotland confirmed it was looking into a “non-recent” allegation made by a woman after Salmond’s death last month. Salmond, 69, had been speaking at a conference on youth leadership in North Macedonia when he suffered a heart attack. The former SNP leader went on to found the pro-independence Alba party after falling out bitterly with his successor as first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, over her independence strategy and then Scottish government investigations into sexual harassment allegations against him. Salmond was found not guilty of 12 charges…