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Starmer Insists ‘Questions to Be Answered’ for the SNP over Peter Murrell Case
Peter Murrell admitted taking more than £400,000 from the Scottish National Party, and Sir Keir Starmer said unanswered questions remain about who knew what.
- On Monday, former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell pleaded guilty to embezzling £400,310.65 from the party between August 2010 and October 2022. Edinburgh High Court remanded him in custody, with the judge calling the crime a gross breach of trust.
- Seven years ago, former SNP group leader at Inverclyde Council Chris McEleny raised concerns about £600,000 missing from a referendum fundraiser at a National Executive Committee meeting. He faced three years of targeted harassment for questioning party finances.
- Murrell's embezzled funds financed a £124,550 luxury motorhome parked in Fife, Bremont watches totaling £9,350, a £4,225 Starwalker fountain pen, and designer kitchenware including £2,618 salt and pepper grinders. His salary fell from £104,492 in 2011 to £79,750 by 2021.
- Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer said people will be "baffled" that SNP leadership claims they "didn't know anything about what was going on." Former leader Nicola Sturgeon insisted she had "no knowledge or suspicion whatsoever" of the purchases.
- Former SNP MP Joanna Cherry called for an independent inquiry into why internal governance systems failed, while MSP Michelle Thomson told BBC Radio 4's Today Programme that "trust has been breached at the most significant level." Swinney faces mounting pressure for a full investigation.
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