What would you say if your spouse bought a luxury campervan? I know what I would say – something along the lines of: ‘Get that thing away from me. I refuse to spend wet weekends campervanning around the Highlands, and I don’t care whether the bathroom facilities are “luxury” or not.’ In other words, any spouse of mine would get a tongue-lashing. But then I have a spiritual aversion to campervans, having spent many a childhood summer stuck behind them on single-track roads in the Highlands, watching their foul residents bespoil many of Scotland’s best beaches.

We cannot know what Nicola Sturgeon’s reaction was to this luxury monstrosity. She would have us believe that when Peter Murrell took receipt of his top-of-the-range campervan she had nothing to say. So we do not know whether she was delighted or horrified by the unexpected gift. Perhaps she said: ‘Oh Peter, it’s just what I’ve always dreamed of: our own luxury motorhome.’ Or maybe she said: ‘I don’t know, Peter, isn’t it a little flashy? What will the neighbours think?’

Did she really not notice when her kitchen counter became a traffic-jam of high-end coffee-makers?

Did she really not notice when her kitchen counter became a traffic-jam of high-end coffee-makers?

The reason we do not know is because while the former first minister of Scotland said she would cooperate fully with all police inquiries into her husband’s embezzlement of SNP funds, she did no such thing. In fact, she sat through hours of police........

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