Murray Foote, a former newspaper editor, said the situation had become a 'serious impediment' to his role
He added: “The 30,000 figure that was reported is not just flat wrong, it’s wrong by about 30,000.”have since questioned why the public was misled and asked Mr Foote to explain.
Scottish Conservative MSP Russell Findlay, a former journalist, has also written to SNP chief executive Peter Murrell asking for him to apologise to the“Journalists across Scotland ask tough questions and provide a vital public service, but they have long been treated as the enemy by the SNP,” he said.
“The SNP fish is rotting from the head and at the top of the party are Peter Murrell and Nicola Sturgeon who clearly think it’s acceptable to treat Scots with such contempt. Responding to Mr Foote’s resignation, veteran SNP MP Pete Wishart said: “You don’t get more ‘loyal’ than me, but when this leadership contest is concluded, we need the broadest possible inquiry into some of the issues around the mess that has been so unnecessarily self-inflicted.”
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