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Hi everyone, it's Laura here. Unless you've been living on a different planet,

you'll doubtless have seen stories about the huge financial scandal that has engulfed the SNP. Nicholas Sturgeon, the former First Minister of Scotland,

was hit for a long time by allegations that financial impropriety in the party

had been going on under her nose. But at the end of May, her husband, the chief executive,

Peter Murrell, pleaded guilty to embezzling £400,000. There have been stories of buying pepper pots that

cost £3,000, of buying Game Boys of Playstations, and of course, that notorious motorhome.

But only Peter Murrell was ever charged. What did Nicholas Sturgeon herself know about what was going on?

She sat down with me to give for the first time her full account of the story. You can watch

our conversation on IPlayer or YouTube, but here we thought you'd want to hear the longer version

of our full conversation. And in the next episode in your feed,

me, Henry and Joe Pike will talk about what it means. Newscast from the BBC. Nicholas Sturgeon, thank you very much for speaking to us today.

Everyone in the country is asking, Peter Murrow, your husband for many years,

pled guilty to stealing 400,000 pounds from the party that you led for many years. You've said you didn't know anything,

but as the person who shared his life, as his wife, did you really not notice anything?

I absolutely didn't know that he was committing crimes. Look, I understand that question.

It's human nature. If I was on the outside looking and on this happening to somebody else,

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