Nicola Sturgeon has said her husband Peter Murrell was “right” to announce his immediate resignation as chief executive of the SNP.
Mr Murrell said on Saturday he was stepping down from his role with immediate effect, following suggestions the party’s ruling National Executive Committee was considering a vote of no confidence in him.
Michael Russell, the party’s current president who has previously served as chief executive and a Scottish Government minister, will take over the operation of SNP headquarters until a permanent replacement for Mr Murrell is found. “The election contest is being run by the national secretary and I have had no role in it at any point.
Earlier this week two of the candidates seeking to replace Ms Sturgeon, Kate Forbes and Ash Regan, raised concerns about the integrity of the election.Secretary Humza Yousaf, widely viewed as the favourite for the top job among the party hierarchy, dismissed these as “baseless smears”. The Health Secretary said: “I agree with Peter that it is time for him to move on and make way for a new leader to appoint a new chief executive as passionate about the SNP and the cause of independence as he has been.”
“The brutal, shambolic SNP leadership election appears to have been the tipping point that’s forced the First Minister’s husband to quit before he was pushed.”
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