Former Scottish First Minister's Husband Arrested in Party Finance Probe

Peter Murrell, the husband of Scotland's former first minister Nicola Sturgeon, has been arrested as part of a police investigation into the finances of the governing Scottish National Party (SNP). The investigation is looking into what happened to more than £600,000 that was raised by Scottish independence campaigners in 2017 and went missing from the party's accounts. There are also questions over a personal loan of more than £100,000 that Murrell provided to the party and failed to declare. The arrest plunges the SNP deeper into crisis with Yousaf already accused of snubbing his defeated rivals for cabinet posts after the bad-tempered leadership campaign.