Leaked Emails Show Snp Minister's Anger at Salmond Split Over Rival Charities' Bid to Woo Rich Americans Split Over Rival Charities' Bid to Woo Rich Americans Investigation by Paul Hutcheon

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A BITTER split between first minister Alex Salmond and one of his senior government colleagues is revealed in private emails passed to the Sunday Herald. In an email last year, enterprise minster Jim Mather said he "agreed on all counts" that the first minister's strategy on promoting Scotland in the US was "potentially very damaging".

Mather made his comment after a diaspora charity he helped to set up, The Scotland Funds (TSF), and which he described as "one of the best things I have done", failed to receive core funding from the government. Emails also show that the minister was furious when he learned that a key Salmond ally in the US, Alison Duncan, had set up a similar charity called the Scotland Foundation to woo wealthy expats.

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Leaked Emails Show Snp Minister's Anger at Salmond Split Over Rival Charities' Bid to Woo Rich Americans Split Over Rival Charities' Bid to Woo Rich Americans Investigation by Paul Hutcheon

A senior SNP source said: "These emails provides a fascinating insight into Jim Mather's views. He is much closer to John Swinney than Salmond."

TSF was established in 2004 to ...

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