article_snippet.sent: The report of the conversation, on February 26, between Miss Sturgeon and Sylvie Bermann, the French Ambassador, was contained within a Scotland Office memo leaked to the Daily Telegraph.
article_snippet.sent: The claim was denied both by the French embassy and Nicola Sturgeon.
article_snippet.sent: In an article for the Observer addressed to Ed Miliband the Observer addressed to Mr Miliband wrote:
article_snippet.sent: A BBC reporter said A BBC reporter suffered an onslaught of ‘vicious abuse’ from Scottish Nationalists simply for asking Nicola Sturgeon about the claims that Nicola Sturgeon would prefer David Cameron to remain as Prime Minister.
article_snippet.sent: ‘scum of the earth’ and ‘lying scum’ by SNP supporters on Twitter.
article_snippet.sent: ‘What an extraordinary level of vicious abuse I have received today for simply reporting the news.
highlights_snippet.sent: Official Whitehall probe was ordered  after SNP chief dismissed memo as untrue .