The First Minister said even he didn’t know Johnston Carmichael quit in October last year until he was briefed after winning the SNP leadership contest on March 27. “And that's why the very first NEC meeting that I chaired as the leader of the party [on April 1], literally less than a week as the leader of the SNP, was to get the NEC to agree to a review into governance and transparency with external input. We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments