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Leaked text messages suggest senior members in the Scottish National Party, including Nicola Sturgeon s husband, pressurised complainants and meddled with the police investigation of Alex Salmond, an MP told the Commons.
Using his parliamentary privilege, David Davis, MP for Haltemprice and Howden, discussed the Holyrood inquiry into the Scottish government’s unlawful investigation of sexual harassment allegations against the former first minister.
Mr Salmond was cleared of 13 charges at the High Court in Edinburgh in March 2020.
The MP said SNP Chief Executive Officer Peter Murrell, who is Mrs Sturgeon s husband, coordinated Sue Ruddick and Iain McCann in the handling of complainants and that there was a concerted effort by senior members of the SNP to encourage complaints .
The Tory told fellow MPs yesterday that a whistle-blower had handed him a “download of text messages from the telephone” of the SNP’s chief operating officer, Sue Ruddick, that reveal “a very strong prima facie case” for Salmond’s claim that party officials conspired to remove him from public life.
“The whistle-blower clearly agrees with those charges,” said Davis, who argued that Holyrood needs to be given the same “powers and privileges” afforded to Westminster politicians, to enable a proper investigation into Salmond’s counter-allegations.
In a further blow to Nicola Sturgeon, David “also claimed that the messages he received showed that the first minister’s chief of staff knew about the allegations against Mr Salmond months before originally asserted”, The Scotsman reports.
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