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Xander Elliards

No taxpayer money was embezzled by Peter Murrell, John Swinney tells heated FMQs

Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar (left) and First Minister John Swinney at the first FMQs of the new Holyrood session (Image: HolyroodTV)

NO taxpayer money was embezzled by former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell, John Swinney insisted during a heated first session of First Minister’s Questions.

In the first FMQs of the new parliament, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar and Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay both raised Murrell’s case and suggested there were wider questions to answer about the culture in the SNP and Scotland’s justice system.

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