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Watchdog asked to probe whether Salmond’s lunch auction broke law

Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon are facing an inquiry into possible criminality as a result of the mounting row over “cash for access”, it emerged last night.

The move comes as the latest poll shows the Nationalist honeymoon firmly at an end. It shows Labour leading the SNP in Holyrood in a poll for the first time since Alex Salmond became First Minister.