Brown said he was only told in the last couple of months, despite auditors qutting the SNP last year
The SNP’s depute leader was kept in the dark about auditors quitting in the middle of a police investigation into party finances.
But the move was only confirmed publicly this month, sparking further accusations of secrecy in the SNP. “We had a change of auditors. Like many, many other auditors across the UK, the auditors employed by the SNP decided they were going to cut back the activities they were involved in and that was true of many auditors and for many organisations.”“Humza Yousaf was not on the party's [governing] NEC, which is where that would be discussed, and you'd have to ask Nicola Sturgeon in terms of what she knew and when.
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