Graham Grant

Home Affairs Editor, columns, leaders, Scottish Daily Mail [email protected]

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

🔴 NEW From First Husband to fraudster: Murrellgate has exposed the cosy cabals and cover-ups at the heart of devolved Scotland. The fallout for Sturgeon and Swinney is only beginning. Read my @MailOnlineScot column 👇

https://t.co/CrIAuIgCEE

#petermurrell #SNP #indyref2

[Calgie @christiancalgie]

EXCL: Nigel Farage's lawyer writes furious letter to BBC following Newsnight defamation row

Reform confirms boycot of the corporation until their apology demands are met.

Letter warns of potential damages should they not feel satisfied by response https://t.co/WMRq7MeelN

[Benjamin Harrop @benjamin_harrop]

This is of course another frustrating element of this case and others. The SIC is taxpayer funded, as is the SG. The SG has their own legal costs = taxpayer funded, the SIC are going to have theirs paid by the SG using....taxpayer funds. We the taxpayers are losing here...

[Scottish Daily Mail @MailOnlineScot]

John Swinney humiliated as judge finds Scottish Government to be 'in contempt'... of its OWN info watchdog
.@GrahamGGrant
https://t.co/8QtTXWeU7R

[Scottish Daily Mail @MailOnlineScot]

As Swinney finally comes clean over ‘ringfenced’ £667k war chest...
HOW CAN ANYONE TRUST A WORD THE SNP SAYS?

🗞️ Tomorrow's Scottish Mail on Sunday front page: #TomorrowsPapersToday #scotpapers 👉️ Read more on #mailonline

[Daily Mail @DailyMail]

Hoodwinked! John Swinney criticised after finally coming clean over 'ring-fenced' £650k warchest... https://t.co/EwLlYViTPw

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

🔴 Exclusive: Police Scotland has been criticised after ruling that an ‘anti-Semitic’ image of Dame Maureen Lipman was not a hate crime

https://t.co/fpXamn636x

#police #antisemitism #hatecrime

[Scottish Daily Mail @MailOnlineScot]

Hoodwinked! John Swinney criticised after finally coming clean over 'ring-fenced' £650k warchest...
.@GrahamGGrant .@DMScotPol
https://t.co/FiqtQrxp0J

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

John Swinney did not discover the truth today - he was plainly aware the ringfenced £600k had been spent when he gave this interview in 2021. He knew exactly why Douglas Chapman had resigned. If he had any integrity, he too would resign today. But he doesn’t, so he won’t.

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

🔴 Humiliation for SNP as judge finds ministers broke their own freedom of information laws, holding them in ‘contempt’ 👇

https://t.co/QzKJtqFWHJ

#SNP #politics

[Scottish Information Commissioner @FOIScotland]

Breaking: Scottish Government found in contempt over FOI practice.
Read more at: https://t.co/t9C3wuUeix

[Tom Gordon @DMScotPol]

Remember the SNP said the Indyref2 money had been 'ringfenced'? John Swinney now confirming it's been used for 'ongoing activities', including elections

[Sam Taylor @staylorish]

Well… there you go. Swinney finally admits that the ringfence meant nothing, and the money the SNP pledged to spend only on a future referendum campaign was frittered away on other things.

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

Demonising Reform didn't stop its rise. So why try the same tactic on Restore?

[Andrew Western MP @AndrewHWestern]

Good. They shouldn’t be on any programme spreading their filth.

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

ANDREW NEIL: Brutal truths about Labour will resonate in Makerfield https://t.co/gC0QsLab3q

[Robert Pyper @BPyper]

The Scottish devolution experiment has not only entrenched dysfunctional bodies such as the Holyrood Parliament, it has undermined local government and contaminated/corrupted established institutions including the civil service and the Crown Office.

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

🔴 Former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell passed off his crime spree in the party’s books as campaign overheads, leadership expenses, legal fees – and ‘event merchandise’

https://t.co/Gi2IJ64yLQ

#petermurrell #SNP #politics #nicolasturgeon #branchform

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

✍️ From today’s leader column: Those at the top of the SNP were plainly asleep at the wheel when this embezzlement took place. Read more 👉 https://t.co/cABUjV6oml

#petermurrell #SNP #nicolasturgeon

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

'The systems in place shouldn't have been able to be abused' - what systems?

[Tom Gordon @DMScotPol]

SNP Economy Secretary Stephen Flynn feels the Peter Murrell kitchen vibe at the Edinburgh Food & Drink Academy

[Graham Grant @GrahamGGrant]

Swinney is badly rattled by Murrellgate, losing his composure under scrutiny. His hopes of a fresh start under a re-energised government lie in ruins.