The SNP is “working very hard” to get new auditors in place, party leader and Scottish First Minister Humza Yousaf said – as he revealed the accountancy firm that had been doing the job had resigned “around about October” last year.
It emerged last week that accountancy firm Johnston Carmichael was no longer handling the SNP accounts – with this coming just days after former party chief executive Peter Murrell was arrested and questioned by police probing the party’s finances.
However, Yousaf insisted he did not think that Murrell, who is also Nicola Sturgeon’s husband, should have his membership suspended while the Police Scotland investigation continues.
