In the last big party funding scandal in British politics, cash-for-honours in 2006-07, Labour prime minister Tony Blair was interviewed by police no fewer than three times.
Nicola Sturgeon's husband, suggests that Police Scotland's detectives want to talk to the party's most senior figures.Back in 2007, each time Mr Blair was interviewed it was as a witness and inside Downing Street. He wasn't arrested and the interviews weren't under caution.
Labour's party treasurer at the time, the late Jack Dromey, then a union official who was seen as an ally of Gordon Brown, infuriated Tony Blair's coterie by declaring that he didn't know about the loans and announcing his own investigation.Explainer - Why have senior SNP executives been arrested and what are police investigating?
The committee also made a celebrity out of the detective leading the Metropolitan Police inquiry, assistant commissioner John Yates, who the committee's Labour chairman Tony Wright dubbed"Yates of the Yard".
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