Nicola Sturgeon defends her record at final FMQs

The party had ridiculed a newspaper report that it had lost 30,000 members since December 2021 – but was later forced to admit its membership had fallen from 104,000 to 72,000 over that time. The party had seen its membership surge to a peak of about 125,000 by 2019 under Ms Sturgeon’s leadership.