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Hello and welcome to a special edition of Coffee House Scots.

We've got some big news which we now have our own special Coffee House Scots page.

Which you can find on Spotify or Apple or whatever you get your podcasts from and do follow.

Now I don't have to ask anyone today to justify their Scottishness because it's all regular guests.

I'm Katie Bulls, Android by Fraser Nelson, Lucy Dan and Michael Simmons.

Now Michael just to kick us off, there's been a disclosure about the number of S&P members.

Before we get to the figures, how do we get here in terms of that open letter?

So the S&P has always been quite vague about their membership size.

And people started asking questions because there's this company, my vote,

who have been commissioned by the S&P to run their leadership process.

And they revealed that they've been handed 78,000 voters to put in their voting system.

But from previous release figures, it was thought that there was more like 100,000 S&P members.

So this led to questions about who is actually voting, how many members are there are in the party.

So the candidates themselves asked for the figures and were reportedly told that they couldn't have them.

And this led to Kate Forbes and Ash Regan, basically writing an open letter to say that there needed to be transparency over the vote and the figures.

Kate Forbes went as far to say that there needed to be an independent auditor of the figures.

And then Humza Yusuf also joined in, although he privately asked for the figures.

And this led to further this week, the membership totals coming out.

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