Jackie Baillie: “I'm delighted for him that he'll be in the House of Lords, that he'll be a minister in the UK Government.”

Too often the SNP operates under a cloak of secrecy.

We need transparency from the Scottish Legal Aid Board regarding the decision-making process, including why Murrell initially qualified, and what has changed for this now to have been withdrawn.

People across the country will wonder why Peter Murrell was able to qualify for legal aid in the first place, given his healthy salary as the SNP’s chief executive for so many years.

However, it should not take lengthy legal disputes to get answers from the SNP government.