Stur crazy
WITH a staggering lack of self-awareness, Scotland’s former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday refused to apologise for her estranged husband embezzling more than £400,000 from the Scottish National Party.
Instead, she made herself out to be the victim of Peter Murrell’s crimes.
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Scotland’s former First Minister Nicola Sturgeon yesterday refused to apologise for her estranged husband embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP Credit: Getty
Sturgeon has made herself out to be the victim of Peter Murrell’s crimes Credit: Getty
“I’m out here feeling as if I’m serving a sentence for a crime I did not commit,” she whined in an interview with the BBC’s Laura Kuenssberg.
Forget for a moment the likelihood of not noticing that the man you live with has spent nearly £140,000 on luxury items for your home — including a £3,500 silver wine coaster, a £3,200 coffee machine and a £2,618 salt and pepper set — because you’re “too busy to use your kitchen”.
As the party leader from 2014, Sturgeon was legally responsible for signing off on the SNP accounts. How did she miss her chief executive husband using party funds to buy a £124,550 luxury motorhome she insists she never saw?
When three senior SNP officers had threatened to resign from the party’s finance and audit committee in 2021, after being denied access to the accounts, she insisted the SNP’s finances “had never been stronger”.
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She also told members not to go public with their financial concerns because, she warned, it would impact on future donations to the SNP.
Others who raised the subject say they were criticised by Ms Sturgeon and her “lackeys” — and described as “traitors”.
As former SNP MP Michelle Thomson has said: “At the very least she has utterly failed in her fiduciary duties and her responsibilities to party members.”
There has to be a public inquiry into what Sturgeon did know, and how all of this was allowed to happen. And if the SNP won’t allow it, then Westminster must.
Military charge
PLANS to force foreign defence firms to invest in UK industry and create British jobs in return for multi-million-pound taxpayer-funded contracts deserve a cautious welcome.
Overseas defence contractors would have to put money back through employment, factories, apprenticeships and supply chains under a “Buy British” edict from Chancellor Rachel Reeves.
Of course, it would be better if the contracts went to British firms in the first place but any boost to our underfunded defences would be a bonus for Defence Secretary John Healey.
Our Army, Navy and Royal Air Force still face a shortfall of £28billion.
Meanwhile, the Government, paralysed by leadership wrangling, seems no nearer to publishing the long-overdue Defence Investment Plan, which is unlikely to go much more than halfway to closing the funding gap at best.
In an increasingly dangerous world, such a failure is indefensible.
