Nicola Sturgeon has questioned whether Alistair Carmichael would have won his Orkney and Shetland seat had voters known he authorised the leaking of a controversial memo.
The former Scottish secretary today apologised to both Ms Sturgeon and the French ambassador to the UK after accepting responsibility for the leaked memo which alleged the Scotland First Minister wanted Tory leader David Cameron to win the general election.
The Scottish First Minister said: “Alistair Carmichael has apologised to me and I accept his apology, but I think the people who have got the right to feel pretty aggrieved tonight are the voters in Mr Carmichael’s constituency who went to the polls and voted for him on the basis that he had nothing to do with this, because that’s what he said during the election campaign.
“It turns out that wasn’t true and, not only did he know something about it, he was the person who leaked the document.”
“I think he should reflect on his position, he should consider his position.
“I think it is reasonable to say it is at least possible that had voters in his constituency known he had engaged in dirty tricks of this nature during the campaign, then they might have voted differently.”