Three cheers for the Sunday Mail, which has today got its hands on footage of Nicola Sturgeon which is, er, sub-optimal, to say the least. The newspaper has been sent a video of the then First Minister furiously insisting that the SNP’s finances had ‘never been stronger’ in a meeting of the party’s ruling body in March 2021.
Sturgeon is shown warning SNP apparatchiks on the National Executive Committee (NEC) to be ‘very careful’ about suggesting there was ‘any problems’ with the accounts’ in an angry statement that came after three members resigned from the party’s finance and audit committee. One of them, Allison Graham, had just read out a statement listing a catalogue of concerns over governance and transparency. Sturgeon responded by telling the NEC that:
The party has never been in a stronger financial position than it is right now and that’s a reflection of our strength and our membership… I’m not going to get into the details… But, you know, just be very careful, all of us, about suggestions that there are problems with the party’s finances, because we depend on donors to donate.
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