So, this is what it has come to. Police officers sealing off Nicola Sturgeon’s home. Her husband and former SNP chief executive, Peter Murrell, taken into custody, before being released without charge. The party headquarters raided. The party’s auditors resigning. Rumours of the police and politicians holding meetings before Sturgeon stepped down. And many ugly, unanswered questions about where more than £600,000, earmarked for a fresh campaign for independence, has gone.
None of this, of course, was mentioned in Sturgeon’s emotional and gushing resignation speech at the end of March. While she gave many reasons for her departure from frontline politics, the looming scandal, now blowing the SNP apart, was not one of them.
Much of this will strike voters as deeply hypocritical. Despite spending
