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Tories vow to split Lord Advocate role

Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, announced plans to separate the roles of Scotland's Lord Advocate during the Scottish Tory conference in Edinburgh. This follows revelations that Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC informed the First Minister about charges against former SNP chief executive Peter Murrell before they became public. Badenoch commented: "It is an absurd state of affairs that the Lord Advocate is currently in charge of an organisation prosecuting a case against a senior SNP figure whilst being in the SNP Government's Cabinet." The proposal aims to eliminate potential conflicts of interest in the legal system.

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