Thread by @theSNP

First Minister @NicolaSturgeon: "I answered questions for 8 hours on this yesterday. I answered every question that was put to me. Presiding Officer, I intend to rest on that to allow both the Committee, and the inquiry on the Ministerial Code, to conclude their work." #FMQs

NS: "In the meantime, I'm going to get on with the job I suspect most people watching at home right now want me to get on with, which is leading this country through and out of a pandemic..." #FMQs

NS: "..and I'll leave Ruth Davidson and the Conservatives to play the political games they seem to prioritise over everything else." #FMQs

NS: "I agree that Ruth Davidson has not forgotten the women at the heart of this, because I don't think Ruth Davidson ever remembered the women at the heart of this." #FMQs

NS: "Ruth Davidson says that she's not playing political games.

I beg to differ.

I think we saw the true colours of the Conservatives yesterday." #FMQs

NS: "First of all, on Tuesday night, they said this. I don't know if Ruth Davidson approved this comment or not but the Conservatives said, in terms, that it did not matter what I said before a Parliamentary Committee yesterday because they had already made up their minds." #FMQs

NS: "It's not about due process. It's political desperation on the part of the Conservatives.

But, Presiding Officer, I think we also had a glimpse of some of the values at play with the Conservatives yesterday."

NS: "Because, during that committee session, one of the Tory members on it seemed to be suggesting that I should've intervened in the process to effectively sweep the allegations against Mr Salmond under the carpet." #FMQs

NS: "And then the other Conservative member asks me to apologise for the inappropriate behaviour of a man.

So there we have the Tories, I think, demonstrating without any help from me, that they are indeed playing political games." #FMQs

NS: "While they do that, I say again - 8 hours of evidence to a committee. It's time to allow the committee, and the independent inquiry into the Ministerial Code, to do their job." #FMQs

NS: "And in the meantime, I'm going to get on with my job, of leading this country through Covid and out of lockdown." #FMQs

NS: "If I can try to strike a note of consensus, because I do believe in the importance of this democratic institution." #FMQs

NS: "By the time I sit down after this session of First Minister's Questions today, I will have been subjected, rightly and properly, to 10 hours of Parliamentary scrutiny over the course of this week. That's me doing my job in discharging my responsibilities." #FMQs

NS: "But can I gently point out to Ruth Davidson that this democratic institution that she extols the virtues of is the same democratic institution that she is about to depart to take up a seat in the unelected House of Lords." #FMQs

NS: "I think people across this country are becoming heartily sick of the soon-to-be Baroness Davidson lecturing anybody else on democracy." #FMQs

NS: "Ruth Davidson has just shown her true colours, and the Conservatives' true colours, all over again.

She stands up here and says scrutiny, and democracy, and due process is really important."

NS: "Just as on Tuesday night, the Conservatives pre-judge my evidence to the Parliamentary inquiry, she's just pre-judged the outcome of the independent inquiry into the Ministerial Code." #FMQs

Nicola Sturgeon: "The people of Scotland have been voting no confidence in the Conservatives since the 1950s." #FMQs

NS: "I will, in a few weeks, subject myself to the ultimate scrutiny - the scrutiny and the verdict of the people of Scotland. The verdict that matters most.

And as I do so, Ruth Davidson will be slinking off to the House of Lords." #FMQs