Updated: 8:35, 1 May 2021
NICOLA Sturgeon this week hit out at the “stench” encircling Boris Johnson’s Tories.
But the SNP have been strongly criticised for problems of their own over the past five years, when the party has lurched from one scandal to another.
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The SNP has been rocked by a series of controversies over the past five years
Controversy has dogged the once-disciplined Nats throughout their whole term in office, including Finance Secretary Derek Mackay pestering a schoolboy with hundreds of texts.
Despite this and a list of other scandals, Ms Sturgeon insisted the SNP doesn’t have reputational problems, claiming: “When issues arise about the behaviour of individuals, then we deal with those appropriately.”