An SNP legend helped deprive the SNP of an overall majority at Holyrood by donating £2,000 to Scottish Labour.
Jim Sillars, who used to be Alex Salmond ’s number two, gave the cash to deputy leader Jackie Baillie's local party so she could hold on to her seat.
Put to him that Baillie’s triumph stopped the SNP from winning the election outright, he told the Record: "If that was a consequence of it, so be it."
