As yet another day passes, the good people of Scotland remain in suspense about the outcome of the police probe into the SNP. The three-year long investigation — which has seen multiple arrests, the impounding of a £110,000 campervan, a military-style raid of SNP HQ and the construction of a rather large forensic tent outside the Dear Leader’s own home — has still not concluded.
In fact, witnesses are being interviewed for the, er, fourth time as police attempt to get to the bottom of fraud claims relating to purchases of a £95,000 electric Jaguar to gardening equipment and women’s razors.
And it now transpires that there is one very particular line of questioning that the police are focusing their efforts on. Witnesses are being quizzed about a leaked video from a meeting Nicola Sturgeon had with her national executive committee back in 2021. The secret footage shows the former FM lecturing SNP apparatchiks to be ‘very careful’ about suggesting there were ‘any problems’ with the accounts, claiming SNP finances have ‘never been stronger’.
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