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Big salaries, a motorhome and SNP accounts: The Nicola Sturgeon interview unwrapped
Key takeaways
- Over a 12-year period, Peter Murrell - who was chief executive of the SNP for more than 20 years - spent party money on more than 1,000 items, from expensive coffee machines to a £124,000 campervan.
- Here we give some of the background to key quotes from the interview.
- "None of these things [the purchases] I would have looked at and thought how on earth could he afford them?
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Sturgeon and Murrell were both important figures in the SNP for decades Former first minister Nicola Sturgeon spoke exclusively and in detail to the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg about the £400,000 embezzled by her estranged husband.
Over a 12-year period, Peter Murrell - who was chief executive of the SNP for more than 20 years - spent party money on more than 1,000 items, from expensive coffee machines to a £124,000 campervan.
Here we give some of the background to key quotes from the interview.
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