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Words by ITV News Multimedia Producer Ann Yip Leaked text messages suggest senior members in the Scottish National Party, including Nicola Sturgeons 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 mini...

Mar 17, 2021 For two and a half years most people in Britain ignored the brewing fight between Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond. No longer. The civil war among Scottish nationalist factions has been justly described as Shakespearean. Scotland’s first minister is vying to save her career while her predecessor and long-time mentor seeks to salvage what’s left of his reputation and legacy. With important elections coming in May, the battle of Salmond versus Sturgeon threatens to under...

Scots Tories urge Blackford to explain why SNP did not act on sexual harassment complaint against MP Serious explaining needed. Lamont says suggestion SNP Chief Whip Grady was protected by party is chilling SCOTTISH Conservatives are urging Ian Blackford to explain why no action was taken after sexual misconduct allegations were made against a senior Nationalist MP four years ago. John Lamont, the Tory MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, has today written to the SNP leader at Westmin...

NICOLA Sturgeon has been called on to confirm or deny she knew her Chief of Staff had “interfered” in the complaints process against Alex Salmond several weeks before the First Minister said she had found out about the harassment claims against her predecessor. In a Commons debate and using parliamentary privilege, David Davis, the former Brexit Secretary, said he had it “on good authority” that there existed from February 6 2018 an exchange of messages from civil servants suggestin...

David Davis is a known friend of Alex Salmond POSSIBLE evidence about alleged collusion between senior figures of the SNP in what former First Minister Alex Salmond has termed a malicious plot to remove him from public life was stated in public in the House of Commons last night. Former Brexit minister David Davis MP used an adjournment debate and parliamentary privilege to make a series of claims about evidence – texts messages and e-mails – he said were provided by an anonymous ...

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Nicola Sturgeon responded to a question about David Daviss comments in the Commons NICOLA Sturgeon rejected Tory MP David Davis’s “suggestions and insinuations” about the Scottish Government’s handling of complaints against former First Minister Alex Salmond during this afternoon’s coronavirus briefing. Last night in the Commons Davis used an adjournment debate and parliamentary privilege to make a series of claims about evidence he said was provided by an anonymous whistleblower...

However the Holyrood inquiry has refused to publish them.  Mr Salmond has been threatened with prosection if he makes them public himself, as they were obtained solely for the purpose of his trial defence. However Mr Davis told the Commons he had been leaked text messages downloaded from Ms Ruddick’s phone and proceeded to share some of them. Speaking in an adjournment debate, he said he was doing so because the Holyrood inquiry had been hamstrung by the Scottish Parliament’s limi...

Nicola Sturgeon facing questions after David Davis MP used parliamentary privilege to reveal messages  Ex-Cabinet minister said one suggested her chief of staff Liz Lloyd interfered in Salmond case in February  Ms Sturgeon has insisted that she was not aware of complaints against Mr Salmond until months later  He also said a whistleblower passed him messages between senior SNP officials, including Peter Murrell Mr Davis said messages suggest a concerted effort to encourage complaints about t...

SNP MP Kenny MacAskill has asked if the police are to speak to David Davis over claims he made in the Commons last night suggesting "a criminal conspiracy" against Alex Salmond. Davis, the former Brexit secretary, used parliamentary privilege to make public material he said was handed to him by “an anonymous whistleblower”. He said the information given to him included a download of text messages from the telephone of Sue Ruddick, the chief operating officer of the SNP, and was held by...