Sturgeon calls for inquiry into leaked memo about alleged PM comments

SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon has said she is calling for an enquiry into a leaked memo that alleged she expressed a preference to see David Cameron as prime minister after the general election over Ed Miliband.

The Daily Telegraph reported that during a meeting with the French Ambassador to the UK in February she allegedly commented that Mr Miliband was not "prime minister material".

"This story is 100% untrue. I've said that, the French ambassador who was the other person who was in the conversation has said that. That really should be an end to the matter.

"In my view the biggest question is.....who wrote this memo, since the Foreign Office now appear to be denying all knowledge of it, how did it come to contain such an inaccuracy? and how did it get into the hands of the Tory supporting Daily Telegraph? I want an enquiry into this."