This committee that Mrs Sturgeon has been giving evidence to is no more a system of justice than the impeachment of Trump. It's not independent and the verdict depends on whether it's stacked with your opposition or your supporters. None of them can be expected to vote on the basis of evidence - it is purely along party lines.
Of greater importance is the independent inquiry under the stewardship of James Hamilton, a former DPP in Ireland. Should he find that Sturgeon misled the Scottish Parliament, then she should do the honourable thing and resign her position. However, if I were her, I'd say; "I'll resign the minute Priti Patel does." That would be a reasonable thing to do and force the Westminster government to show its hand as to whether it considered the Ministerial Code as being worth the paper it's written on.
In fact, she should go further and say she will resign once Boris Johnson does, as he misled Parliament too. In fact, Boris has made it into an artform and even misled Her Majesty, which is a capital offence to many Conservatives, unless Boris does it, in which case it's not necessarily a bad thing.
This could, of course, lead to charges of whataboutery, but changing the name of hypocrisy to whataboutery does not change the charge of hypocrisy.
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