Jackie Baillie: “But when an offer comes from the Prime Minister to go and serve in Government, it's an offer you really can't refuse.”

They have so far dug their heels in on the issue of an inquiry, but they still have a final chance to do the right thing, back the motion and allow the Scottish Parliament to hold an inquiry.

Questions are piling up about the circumstances surrounding Peter Murrell’s crime spree and with public money potentially misused, John Swinney’s ‘nothing to see here’ act is becoming increasingly untenable.

This is about, as far as the Government and the SNP are concerned, sweeping things under the carpet, nothing to see here, we have just to trust them.

The cheek of a man on his income, with his lifestyle and with a holiday home in Portugal, pleading poverty to exploit a legal aid system his party has hollowed out while in government is not only staggering but is a slap in the face to…