Specialist forensic accountants should be brought in to go through the SNP’s finances, a former member of the Scottish cabinet said as he warned it is “absolutely unacceptable” that the party’s auditors had quit months ago without members being informed.
Alex Neil, who served in the top teams of both Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, said SNP members need to know why accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael had resigned from the role.
