Sturgeon, Gove Join 4-Part Sky Wargame as £400,000 SNP Embezzlement Case Fuels Backlash
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Updated · BBC.com · Jun 22
Sturgeon, Gove Join 4-Part Sky Wargame as £400,000 SNP Embezzlement Case Fuels Backlash
3 articles · Updated · BBC.com · Jun 22
Summary
Sky TV said Nicola Sturgeon will serve as deputy prime minister and Michael Gove as prime minister in “The Wargame,” a four-part series simulating a Russian attack on UK soil.
September’s show assembles a cross-party cabinet for Cobra-style crisis meetings, with Jim Murphy, Penny Mordaunt, Harriet Harman and Sayeeda Warsi among the cast, alongside military and diplomatic figures.
Sturgeon’s casting lands a day before Peter Murrell is due to be sentenced after admitting he embezzled more than £400,000 from the SNP to buy items including cars, a motorhome and cosmetics.
Douglas Lumsden of the Conservatives and Scottish Labour’s Jackie Baillie said the TV role would intensify scrutiny of Sturgeon, who says she knew nothing of Murrell’s crimes and was “deceived, betrayed and lied to.”