Thread by @BBCPhilipSim

Latest in the back and forth between Alex Salmond and the Holyrood inquiry committee - they're now asking if he can come in on February 2nd *at the very latest*. Have also offered 26 January - altho they've also invited Peter Murrell to give further evidence on one of those dates

One minor detail I'd pick out from that letter is the note that committee members "unanimously" agreed to invite Mr Salmond to give evidence on 2 Feb. Perhaps a hint that things have not been entirely unanimous during their deliberations so far...

If they can't come to an agreement, *in theory* the inquiry committee could actually compel Alex Salmond to attend, although I imagine he would be able to produce a "reasonable excuse" what with the whole pandemic thing going on

One other thing on this - literally every inquiry witness has been subject to legal constraints on their evidence, the MSPs too for that matter. Many things tied up with the criminal case are simply not going to be brought into this inquiry; that’s been a base condition all along

https://twitter.com/peteradamsmith/status/1351596883232305159

So when people talk about “the whole truth” and so on - there will simply never be a completely comprehensive account of this whole saga, between court orders and jigsaw identification risks. You can take that as expectation management for the final report too...