The SNP has deservedly gained a reputation for playing fast and loose with important information that might in time cause it embarrassment.
During the Alex Salmond saga, Nicola Sturgeon was criticised for failing to keep a record of meetings and phone calls with her predecessor. Sturgeon claimed the conversations were a party matter, but although she was eventually cleared of breaching the ministerial code, it was still ruled that these had been government business.
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