Laura Kuenssberg
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I didn't notice the stuff that he was buying.
Some of them were presents for me.
And when we mentioned one of the gifts that had been given to her, this particular necklace that she'd been bought by Murrow while they were on a campaigning trip to Shetland, she found that very difficult to talk about and really, really emotional to cast her mind back to how she feels he had betrayed her.
But time and again, she was absolutely adamant that she knew absolutely nothing.
She basically didn't notice.
Where we get then to the question of her job as the leader of the party, that means that she was one of the party officers.
That means she had a technical and specific responsibility to monitor the accounts.
When I asked her about that, she was like, well, what about the motorhome?
Well, I didn't think anything of it.
It didn't stand out to me, this entry line of tens of thousands of pounds for motor vehicles.
What about when there was a drop of Β£300,000 one year in the party accounts?
She didn't particularly recall that.
And Henry, do you think that that will be convincing to her political critics who are also, frankly, you know, sometimes other rival politicians will play a game with this, won't they?
It will be deeply helpful for opposition parties to the SNP in Scotland and their rivals in Westminster to carry all of this on.
But do you think that she is in reputational trouble, I suppose, over this question of the accounts, even though the police made a decision not to charge her?
Oh, she would have been doing it with great force and great ability, I think.
It's one of the things about this story which makes it, I was going to say gives it such pathos, but what a ridiculously pompous thing to say that.
I'd normally leave that to Paddy, is that she was one of the biggest political stars of her generation.
And her political career has ended with massive and profound success.