{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6655a16405d9ed0012fc800b/6a197d56cf44bee3b23095bb?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Murrell, Sturgeon & Swinney - Who Knew What, When?","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/6655a16405d9ed0012fc800b/1780055224470-b04177db-086d-4db8-9dbc-a929cb59b240.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Increasingly, it looks like the scandal that has rocked the SNP will not go away. Peter Murrell's admission and subsequent conviction have led to more questions. Bernard Ponsonby and Alex Massie discuss.</p><ul><li><strong>PONSONBY - John Swinney may need an independent inquiry into SNP governance, because a party-led response risks looking like a whitewash.</strong></li><li><strong>MASSIE -</strong> <strong>Nicola Sturgeon’s core problem is not only “what did she know?” but “what should she have known?” as SNP leader signing off party accounts.</strong></li><li><strong>PONSONBY - Many mainstream journalists were “asleep at the wheel” while Sean Clerkin and Stuart Campbell kept pressing questions others dismissed.</strong></li><li><strong>MASSIE </strong>- <strong> the SNP may face an impossible choice: stand by Sturgeon or “throw her under the campervan” to draw a line under the scandal.</strong></li><li><strong>PONSONBY - the SNP finance scandal is sensational but may not have a lasting electoral impact — unless the party mishandles the demand for answers.</strong></li></ul><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Solid Media"}