What on earth was going on in the Scottish National Party?

Not Another One

Richards Green Montgomerie Martin

Politics, News, Political, Political Commentary, Prime Minister, General Election, Number 10, Not Another One, Rishi Sunak

4.7 • 566 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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With Peter Murrell, the SNP’s erstwhile former chief executive and husband of Nicola Sturgeon, now behind bars, our team look at the implications of an outrageous scandal. Plus, the latest on the Burnham by-election circus and a policy discussion on social media bans and the coming wave in politics here and in the US - the backlash against big tech.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Not Another One, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Ian Martin and Tim Montgomery. And on this hot baking day where we are recording we're going to
0:24.9	have our another of our tapas editions a pot-poorie to continue with the images of different
0:32.9	scenes which you can enjoy whilst lying on a beach or whatever while we're working away at temperatures of 32 degrees.
0:41.7	Do any of you like this heat?
0:43.3	No.
0:43.9	I quite like it actually.
0:45.6	I mean, I mean, this is too much, but I do way prefer being hot to being cold.
0:50.8	Yeah, me too.
0:51.4	Is it hot?
0:52.6	I'm in an air-conditioned travel lodge. It seems to really love you in here.
0:56.3	So I didn't realize it's hot. I hate it with a passion. I really do. We didn't vote for Brexit to get European weather, is what I said.
1:05.8	Well, it's better being indoors recording podcasts actually at the moment. But anyway, I hope those of you
1:13.0	who are on holiday, it's half term in Parliament and with schools, you're having a great time,
1:19.1	but of course keeping in touch with things. What we're going to do if it's okay with all of you
1:23.7	is explore three themes, two highly political, and one policy-based, and we'll see
1:31.7	how far we can get with all three in our time together.
1:36.0	We're going to begin in a limited way because none of us know the full situation with
1:43.1	the extraordinary Peter Murrell saga in Scotland, the former chief exec of the SMP, pleading
1:51.2	guilty to embezzlement.
1:54.1	And what is partly fascinating in a dark, partly absurd story is the sort of nature of what was being embezzled from the famous
2:06.5	camper van to relatively small domestic items. Ian, you've worked in Scotland at the highest level of
2:15.5	journalism. Did you know him? Well, I mean, yes, encountered him quite a few
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