The Investigation Into the SNP's Finances

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Police were investigating allegations around the misuse of funds raised by the party for use ostensibly for a second referendum on Scottish independence. Nicola Sturgeon was arrested and taken in for questioning but later released. She insists that she is innocent of any wrongdoing. But all this has proven horrifically embarrassing for the couple themselves and also for the party which between them they really dominated.

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