Why are the police searching Nicola Sturgeon's house?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 6 April 2023
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
There are two questions that accompany any political scandal. What did you know and when did you know it?
After questioning Nicola Sturgeon's husband Peter Murrell for eleven hours yesterday, police are back at their Glasgow house, and there's still a blue evidence tent in the garden.
It comes just a week after the leadership election of new SNP First Minister Humza Yousaf, seen as the Sturgeon succession candidate.
So what should we make of the timing of all this? And what are the political implications if it was pre arranged?
We ask the leader of the SNP in Westminster, Stephen Flynn.
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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. |
| 0:13.2 | There are two questions that stalk every political scandal. Quite simple. What did you know and when did you know it? And those two questions |
| 0:24.2 | today are so pertinent for the SMP who find themselves the subject of very unwelcome scrutiny |
| 0:32.7 | after the arrest of the former chief executive and Nicola Sturgeon's husband yesterday |
| 0:37.8 | and the ongoing police investigation at a time when the leadership contest |
| 0:42.8 | was only announced a week or two earlier and was an incredibly tight result. |
| 0:47.3 | The SMP has been in the news a lot in the last month with Nicola Sturgeon's shock resignation, |
| 0:56.1 | which has been thrown into, let's say, a new light |
| 0:59.9 | by these extraordinarily dramatic events that unfolded right at her house yesterday. |
| 1:07.4 | Police officers, investigation teams, detectives, arriving really early, 735 in the morning |
| 1:15.7 | and within a few minutes erecting a rather strange and rather sinister blue evidence tent in their |
| 1:25.5 | garden. They then arrested her husband, Peter Murrell, who was until last month |
| 1:31.1 | the chief executive for more than 20 years of the SMP, and they took him for questioning for nearly 12 hours. |
| 1:39.2 | Welcome to the newsagents. |
| 1:45.5 | The news agents. |
| 1:47.5 | It's John. It's Emily. |
| 1:53.5 | And in a moment, we'll be speaking to Stephen Flynn, who is the SMP's leader in Westminster, |
| 1:59.5 | a supporter of the First Minister, Humsey-Yussef, and we'll be asking him about who knew what, when. |
| 2:00.5 | But first, we're going to hear from Dan Whitehead. |
| 2:03.1 | He is with Sky and he's right on the scene outside Nicola Sturgeon's house reporting. |
| 2:08.0 | Well, we're well into the second day of this investigation at the home of Nicola Sturgeon, |
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