Pete Wishart said proposals to hold an inquiry in the upper house in Westminster amounted to a plot to give “cronies”, “bishops and aristocrats” the chance to “sit in judgment” of the party. It comes after Lord Foulkes told The Times that peers could investigate the SNP if the Commons failed to do so. The Labour peer said: “The ideal way forward would be to have a judge-led inquiry set up in Scotland, but obviously the SNP won’t do that. (Image: Unknown)The SNP have rejected Unionist parties’ calls for an inquiry into the culture under Murrell, which they claim allowed him to perpetuate fraud undetected for years. Nicola Sturgeon’s estranged husband was jailed earlier this year for embezzling more than £400,000 from the SNP.