{"id":237164,"date":"2026-07-03T07:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=237164"},"modified":"2026-07-03T07:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T07:56:13","slug":"ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=237164","title":{"rendered":"Ministers back SNP probe as Sturgeon refuses to apologise for Murrell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two top government ministers have backed an inquiry into the SNP after its former chief executive Peter Murrell admitted to embezzling over \u00a3400,000 from the party. Shadow home secretary Chris Philp told the BBC\u2019s Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg that there \u201cshould definitely be an inquiry because trust in politics has been fundamentally undermined by the &#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cityam.com\/ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two top government ministers have backed an inquiry into the SNP after its former chief<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237164-ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell.jpg",1200,800,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237164-ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237164-ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237164-ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell-768x512.jpg",640,427,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237164-ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell-1024x683.jpg",640,427,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237164-ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell.jpg",1200,800,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237164-ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell.jpg",1200,800,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237164-ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell-1024x683.jpg",1024,683,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237164-ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/237164-ministers-back-snp-probe-as-sturgeon-refuses-to-apologise-for-murrell-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237164\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/237165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}