Nicola Sturgeon

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

and they didn't get i don't do you wish you'd done it differently no i don't accept that's true nobody and this is where it has been made to sound like something it's not nobody was coming to me and saying we think money's been spent on items that are not they were saying please be more transparent with the finances the treasurer quit over this and the treasurer that came in after him sent out

a very detailed explanation in the interest of transparency, explaining exactly... Remember, I go back to this, this was not concerns about embezzlement of funds.

This was concerns about we'd raise money for an independence referendum and was it being used for election campaigning?

And contrary to nothing being done to try to assuage these concerns,

steps were taken to try to explain how that money was being coded and dealt with within the cash flow of the party.

When did you begin to suspect that there had been wrongdoing?

Early in 2023, not that I suspected there had been wrongdoing,

Early in 2023, around about the spring, I think, of 2023, there was... It became clear that some people who were being interviewed by the police were being asked not just about this issue of, you know, referendum funding used for election campaigns, but there were questions being asked about the purchase of individual items.

And you had no inkling up until that point?

No.

This was about embezzlement of funds to buy items?

Absolutely not.

At that point...

Did you discuss or confront your former husband about what had been going on?

I was hearing things secondhand about things that witnesses were being asked about.

And I did ask him, but at that point it wasn't anything like we've heard of.

So one time I do remember confronting him was when I found out about the camper van in early 2023.

I asked him, why on earth?

he bought a camper van.

And the explanation I got then was that this had been, he bought it in advance of the 2021 election.

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