article_snippet.sent: her husband, Peter Murrell is the man credited with transforming the nationalist leader from surly apparatchik to national stateswoman – on the brink of holding the balance of power.
article_snippet.sent: Softly spoken, bespectacled and almost unknown outside the Scottish political village, her husband, Peter Murrell can walk the busiest streets in Scotland without being recognised.
article_snippet.sent: However, anyone assuming that Murrell's only role is that of dutiful house-husband would be sorely mistaken.
article_snippet.sent: As chief executive of the SNP, dutiful house-husband has transformed the SNP fortunes, creating a formidable electoral machine.
article_snippet.sent: Murrell (right) is the man credited with transforming the nationalist leader (left) from surly apparatchik to national stateswoman – on the brink of holding the balance of power .
article_snippet.sent: In 2001, when Murrell (right) took on the role, the party had a paltry 6,000 members; today the SNP is the third-biggest party in the UK, with a membership of 110,000.
article_snippet.sent: Murrell, who earns about £120,000 a year, and Murrell (right) wife first met when Ms Sturgeon – an 18-year-old firebrand Left-winger – attended an SNP gathering which Murrell (right) helped to organise.
article_snippet.sent: Murrell, who earns about £120,000 a year, and his wife first met when Ms Sturgeon – an 18-year-old firebrand Left-winger – attended an SNP gathering which he helped to organise were married in 2010 with a wedding cake created by the Scottish confectionery dynasty Tunnock's.
article_snippet.sent: Perhaps Mr Murrell was following orders from the Chief Whip.
highlights_snippet.sent: SNP leader is credited with 'transforming' Her into the national stateswoman Her is .
  