{"id":608519,"date":"2026-05-28T13:23:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608519\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T13:23:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T13:23:08","slug":"first-ministers-questions-peter-murrells-embezzlement-conviction-raised-at-first-fmqs-of-new-parliament-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/608519\/","title":{"rendered":"First Minister’s Questions: Peter Murrell’s embezzlement conviction raised at first FMQs of new parliament term"},"content":{"rendered":"

FMQs overhaul begins next weekpublished at 13:04 BST<\/p>\n

13:04 BST<\/p>\n

Just a reminder that next week FMQs returns with a new two-session format. <\/p>\n

There will be two separate sessions, one for backbenchers on a Tuesday and another for party leaders on a Thursday.<\/p>\n

It is part of a shake-up by the new presiding officer Kenneth Gibson, who previously said “status quo is not an option” as he pledged to transform how the parliament works<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The leaders of Labour, Reform and the Greens will get three questions, while the Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats will get two each.<\/p>\n

With Labour and Reform tied for second place on the same number of seats, they’ll take it in turns to go first, although Gibson warned he might sometimes start with the Liberal democrats “for devilment and to freshen things up”.<\/p>\n

As part of his overhaul, questions to the first minister will no longer be published ahead of time.<\/p>\n

Opposition MSPs previously complained that giving advance notice decreased accountability and led to scripted answers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FMQs overhaul begins next weekpublished at 13:04 BST 13:04 BST Just a reminder that next week FMQs returns…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-608519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=608519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}