SNP - it's getting worse
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🗓️ 18 April 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
Another high profile arrest in the SNP. This time, Party Treasurer Colin Beattie - who was called in for questioning in the inquiry into party finances - specifically the concerns over £600,000 raised by supporters to fund a second independence referendum.
It's been a rocky few weeks since Sturgeon announced her resignation in February. The arrest of her husband and Chief Executive of the SNP, the blue evidence tent in their garden, the removal of a camper van from the in-laws in Dunfermline, leaked conversations that surfaced two years ago and now the second arrest.
What is this doing to the party, to independence and to Scottish voters?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:09.3 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.1 | In late January of this year, Nicola Sturgeon was telling anyone who'd listen that she had plenty in the tank, that she was going to go on and on. |
| 0:22.6 | It is now April, and a lot has happened since then. |
| 0:26.6 | Part of serving well would be to know almost instinctively |
| 0:32.6 | when the time is right to make way for someone else. |
| 0:36.6 | In my head and in my heart, I know that time is now. |
| 0:42.3 | Detectives departing after more than 30 hours. |
| 0:46.3 | Time spent scouring the home of ex-SMP Chief Peter Murrow, |
| 0:52.3 | the husband of Nicola Sturgeon. Now it's reported another police raid, this time at Peter Murrell, the husband of Nicholas Sturgeon. |
| 0:55.0 | Now it's reported another police raid, this time at Peter Murrell's mother's home, 50 miles away. |
| 1:01.0 | A 100,000 pound luxury motor home was reportedly wheeled away from the house in Fife |
| 1:06.0 | as part of the active investigation into S&P finances. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you all for coming along on Easter weekend. |
| 1:14.6 | The last few days have been obviously difficult, quite traumatic at times, |
| 1:19.6 | but I understand that is part of a process. |
| 1:23.6 | This is LBC. |
| 1:25.6 | From Global's Newsroom at 11 o'clock. This is LBC. |
| 1:37.2 | From Global's Newsroom at 11 o'clock, detectives investigating the SNP's finances and funding have made another arrest. |
| 1:44.7 | Party treasurer Colin Beatty is being questioned in the long-running inquiry into the use of money earmarked for independence campaigning. |
| 1:49.7 | Just when you thought you'd got over, the rapid resignation of Nicola Sturgeon, |
| 1:53.1 | the arrest of her husband, that weird blue tent in the garden, |
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