Jackie Baillie: “If Peter Murrell is now in a position to pay back legal aid, he should do so.”

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

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 a national scandal. Not only has Peter Murrell scammed SNP members, independence supporters, and potentially taxpayers, but now it seems he has scammed the legal aid system.

Too often the SNP operates under a cloak of secrecy.