From motorhomes to £2k pepper pots: Inside Sturgeon's husband's eye-watering embezzling
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband Peter Murrell, the former chief executive of the Scottish National Party, has admitted to embezzling over £400k of party funds in order to fund his “lavish lifestyle” - using the money to buy everything from luxury watches and fountain pens to a motorhome.
Camilla and Tim speak to the deputy leader of Scottish Labour, Jackie Baillie MSP, who says both Sturgeon herself and the SNP leader and Scotland’s first minister John Swinney have questions to answer about what they knew at the time.
Elsewhere, with Restore deciding to field a candidate in the Makerfield by-election and sexist tweets posted by Reform’s candidate Robert Kenton coming to light, are Nigel Farage’s chances of beating Andy Burnham slipping away?
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Highlights
- What did Nicola Sturgeon know and not know about Murrell's spending habits?
- Will Restore end up splitting the vote on the right in Makerfield?
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph. |
| 0:09.6 | It's the scandal to end all scandals. |
| 0:13.1 | Nicholas Sturgeon's estranged husband admits to embezzling over 400 grand from the SNP |
| 0:18.9 | to pay for everything from a breadbin to a motor home. |
| 0:23.2 | But now Nicholas Sturgeon herself is under pressure to explain what she knew or didn't know about Peter Murrell's Carousel of Goodies. |
| 0:31.2 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tominy. |
| 0:33.8 | And me, Tim Stanley. |
| 0:45.1 | Thank you. And me, Tim Stanley. Tim Stanley. |
| 0:46.7 | It's good to see. |
| 0:49.0 | It's far too hot. |
| 0:50.2 | It's insanely hot. |
| 0:51.9 | Another Brexit failure. It's Brexit's hot. No, it's fault. Leave the EU and you get Spanish weather. It makes no sense. Should you and I open a vineyard somewhere near your place, down in the Garden of England? It's not actually Brexit's fault. According to the Conservatives, it's Robert Jenrick's fault. I love this. Conservatives pledged to reverse the aircon ban. |
| 1:12.7 | As Britain swelters in record heat, the Conservatives point the finger at net zero building |
| 1:17.8 | regulations banning aircon devised by then Conservative Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick in 2021. |
| 1:24.7 | The press release goes on to just say it's all Jenwick's fault. |
| 1:28.3 | I'm not sure. I'm not sure that's the win that the Conservative Party thinks it is. |
| 1:32.3 | Because that would be a Conservative government failure involving Robert Jenric. |
| 1:37.3 | Also, Rob, it seems, is such a player in politics that he wrote all of Tory policy for the last 10 years. |
| 1:45.0 | Yes. He likes to distance himself from Tory policy. And now he's got into a row, by the way, |
| 1:49.6 | with his own comrade, Zia Yusuf, over deportation. And I don't think Yusuf likes the Tories |
| 1:56.5 | in his midst, doesn't it? No. No, I think he'd like to have the renditioned out of the party. |
| 2:01.1 | There is tension there. Just out of interest, are you a person who sleeps in a bed, like, with a fan blowing directly onto you, or? It's tricky, isn't it? Because on the one hand, I hate the heat. On the other hand, I hate the... Yes. Of the fan. And the two, I'm finding that I'm waking up at about half five when the daylight suddenly pours in like a volcano. |
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