Alastair Campbell

And I don't know what the – I don't know what the constitutional niceties of that are.

But the MPs on the Scottish Affairs Committee have also said that if Holyrood doesn't do a proper investigation into this, that maybe they should take it up.

And that, by the way, was part of the chatter that was going on at the time.

So we had the whole dramatic thing of the police sort of raid on the house, all the stuff being taken away, the investigation going on.

And I can remember in the run up to the election, people saying, well, of course, you know, they're sitting on this thing until et cetera, et cetera.

So, look, I don't know.

None of us know the full facts.

What we do know is that he has been convicted of pretty serious crimes.

And politically, she has taken a further hit on the back of it.

And of course, it is quite extraordinary that a party that has been quite a scandal ridden, that they just have won this pretty extraordinary, remarkable win to keep themselves in power.

They're becoming one of the longest running governments in the world at a time when most governments are sort of tipping left, right and centre.

So I think the point you've raised there is the most interesting question.

Were the police put under political pressure

to delay something which they actually felt they had a strong enough case to take earlier than they did.

Don't know.

Don't know.

Yeah.

And on Clem's question, whether British politics is a scandal ridden and are we becoming the next Italy?

As I told you, I was in Italy last week.

And actually, one of the questions I was asked is whether we Britain are becoming, we are becoming the new Italy, not because of this.