Nicola Sturgeon
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first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Aug
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That's what was being referred to.
It was all wrapped up in the debate about whether I was doing enough to secure an independence referendum.
The concern was that you weren't being transparent enough about the books.
No, no, hold on.
We took very careful steps, and there is documentary evidence of this, to explain how that money was being managed.
And my comments about
They weren't my comments, but comments about politics around this is because at this point, this was a debate about finances all wrapped up in this debate about an independence referendum.
This is the point I want to be very clear about.
And it gets these things have become very conflated.
There was no occasion.
no occasion that somebody came to me and said, we're concerned that somebody is embezzling money from the SNP.
And there was nothing ever in the accounts.
If qualified auditors weren't able to see that when they approved the accounts, I'm not sure how I or the National Treasurer should have been able to see that.
One of the things that was said...
And this pains me deeply, pains me very deeply on Monday by the police, was the extent to which Peter had gone to cover up what he was doing.
And yes, there are questions that you're asking me legitimately about how the party's finances were managed and the discussions around that.
But none of that, absolutely none of that explains or makes other people responsible for the fact that one man committed a crime.
It doesn't excuse his embezzling.
It doesn't excuse his crimes.
But there was a pattern that when repeatedly people were asking questions of you and the party, pushing for more transparency about how money was being spent,
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