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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Katrine Bussey

Sturgeon had ‘remarkable lack of curiosity’ over SNP finances, former MP claims

Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon is ‘guilty of a remarkable lack of curiosity ‘over her estranged husband’s spending, former SNP MP Joanna Cherry claimed (Jane Barlow/PA) -

Former Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon showed a “remarkable lack of curiosity” over SNP finances, with a former MP claiming those seeking answers were deliberately frustrated by the party hierarchy.

Joanna Cherry KC had been a high-profile member of the SNP group at Westminster and was elected to the party’s national executive committee with a “mandate” from party members to probe what had happened to hundreds of thousands of pounds of cash donated to the party to help campaign for Scottish independence.

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