SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn was met with a wall of heckles in the House of Commons today as he faced MPs for the first time since multiple arrests of high profile party figures.
Conservative MPs mocked the party over Police Scotland's investigation into the misuse of donations.
Tories laughed as he rose to his feet and could be heard shouting about the reported seizure of a campervan as part of the police investigation.
With pressure mounting on the SNP, Rishi Sunak used Prime Minister's Questions this afternoon to also attack the party for the legal crisis.
Stephen Flynn was met by a wall of heckles
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He quipped that his party would “motor on with the job” as he swiped at the SNP's legal rows.
The Prime Minister also added: "If they can't fix the mess that Nicola Sturgeon left their party in, how can they possibly fix the mess that she left Scotland in?"
The SNP's former chief executive Peter Murrell – who is married to Nicola Sturgeon – has been arrested and questioned, before being later released without charge, with the couple’s home also being searched by officers.
On Tuesday Police Scotland then arrested SNP treasurer Colin Beattie, also the MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, as part of Police Scotland’s ongoing investigation into how more than £600,000 in donations to the party earmarked for an independence referendum had been used.
Beattie was released without charge yesterday afternoon.
It has also emerged that the SNP is currently without auditors after accountants Johnston Carmichael quit last year, with no replacement as yet being found.
In a bid to make light of the situation which developed over the Easter parliamentary recess, Flynn responded to Tory heckles by joking: "I’m delighted to hear that they had an equally peaceful and relaxing Easter break as I did."
Looking to return the attention to divides within the Conservative party, the SNP leader quizzed Sunak on comments made by Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross earlier this month in which he suggested voters should vote for whichever party was most likely to oust the ruling party in Scotland.
Rishi Sunak quipped that the party was dealing with Nicola Sturgeon's 'mess'
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He asked: “Was it their refusal to stand alongside striking workers on the picket line, their acceptance of the economic damage being caused by Brexit, or perhaps their support for denying the people of Scotland the right to choose their own future which led to the leader of the Scottish Conservative Party urging voters to back Labour?”
Sunak responded: "What we’re doing is not getting distracted by the things that are going on elsewhere.
"And we’re focused on delivering for the people of Scotland.”
He added: "Now I know at the moment him and his party are focused on other matters.
"We’re just going to motor on with the job.”
Praising Ross, Sunak continued: "The Scottish Conservatives deserve enormous praise for forcing the SNP into abandoning their completely unworkable, fundamentally flawed deposit return scheme.
"We look forward to working with them on delivering something that actually works to deliver of the people of Scotland
"If (the SNP) can’t fix the mess that Nicola Sturgeon left their party in, how can they possibly fix the mess that she left Scotland in?"
