Funding, forensics – and a fridge freezer? The investigation into the SNP

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🗓️ 27 April 2023

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Just a few months ago the SNP, with Nicola Sturgeon at the helm, looked almost untouchable. Now a fraud investigation into the party has caused that image to dramatically unravel. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/infocus

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:07.7	Today, burner phones, forensics and a seized motorhome.
0:13.5	What is going on in the SMP?
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0:58.5	It's been a month since Scotland got its new leader, Hums a Youssef.
1:02.9	It is hard for me to find the words, to describe just how honoured I am to be entrusted by our membership.
1:16.4	Throughout the SMP's election campaign, Yusef built himself as the continuity candidate,
1:22.2	promising that he'd carry on the legacy that Nicholas Sturgeon had left.
1:26.8	I will work every minute of every day to earn and to re-air your respect and your trust.
1:37.0	Now though, that legacy is looking complicated.
1:45.5	The optics are not great. Police Scotland preserving the home of Nicholas Sturgeon as a crime scene.
1:53.3	Well, it was pretty dramatic footage of the home that Nicholas Sturgeon, the former SMP leader
2:00.9	and Peter Morrell, her husband and former SMP chief executive share in this quiet,
2:07.6	fairly well-to-do estate in Uddingston, south east of Glasgow.
2:12.5	Police have set up an incident tent in the front garden. Every room in this property is being
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