Nicola Sturgeon

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Newscast · Nicola Sturgeon speaks to the BBC · 31 May 2026 podcast

So the income and the expenditure of the SNP would fluctuate, the balance sheet would fluctuate, so it would not have been unusual to see changes in that.

But it was also the case that whether in 2017 or 2019, the party was able to spend around a million pounds in each of these election campaigns.

The management of the finances was always something that was ongoing to make sure that we could fund the operations and the election activities of the SNP.

There's a bit of a clash though here because as a fearsome politician your reputation was for being completely fastidious across every detail.

Some people actually even accused you of being a micromanager.

But when it came to your party's accounts, well, it went up and down.

You were looking, but you didn't notice things popping up in a big way.

That's always been the case.

And that is making it sound as if there was something glaringly suspicious in the accounts that I should have seen and I didn't.

The financial position of the party, like all parties, will ebb and flow and go up and down.

Again, and I am, you know, the national treasurer of the party was deceived and misled as well.

But you were the boss and you were the leader and you had a responsibility.

What would you say to somebody who was running a different public organisation who'd had a drop of £300,000 in their accounts and not really noticed?

There will have been years where the income will have gone up again.

The balance sheet of the party will have gone up again.

The point I'm making is it fluctuates for a variety of different reasons.

But the point I would make, these accounts that you're talking about,

were audited by professional auditors, by qualified accountants.

I then rely on a National Treasurer to say he's satisfied with accounts for them to be put forward to the National Executive Committee.

So the idea, and I want to seriously challenge this, of course there will be ebbs and flows in the party's financial position, but the idea there was anything in the accounts that would have alerted me to what Peter pled guilty to on Monday is absolutely

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