Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister, has taken questions from journalists in a brief huddle after FMQs. Here are the main points.

 

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Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister, has taken questions from journalists in a brief huddle after FMQs. Here are the main points.

 

Yousaf said that SNP finances were on a “steady footing” and that the party was “not facing bankruptcy”.

 

He said the party still owed money to Peter Murrell, the former chief executive married to Nicola Sturgeon who lent the party more than £100,000. But Yousaf would not say how much. He said the details would be set out when the party published the outcome of its transparency review.

He said he did not think the SNP would be paying the legal fees of Colin Beattie, the former party treasurer who was arrested this week.

He said that he and Beattie came to a “mutual agreement” yesterday that Beattie should stand down as treasurer. He used the phrase when asked why he had not sacked Beattie.

He said the SNP has still not appointed new auditors.