Lisa Cameron is facing a challenge to remain the SNP’s candidate in East Kilbride after she criticised how the party handled a complaint against former chief whip Patrick Grady
An SNP MP says she felt shunned by the party hierarchy after she spoke out against a sex pest colleague.
Cameron said her problems got worse after she challenged colleagues over their treatment of a young staffer who was sexually harassed by an SNP MP. The probe concluded that he had significantly breached Parliament's sexual misconduct policy and he was handed a two-day suspension from the Commons. "After I spoke up in one of the meetings and said ‘shouldn't we be supporting the victim?’ people ignored me for quite some time. They were quite hostile towards me, so it wasn't friendly.
She is being challenged by a party worker, who has been boosted by receiving the backing of the constituency's Westminster campaign committee. Scottish politics Scottish Labour deputy leader Jackie Baillie said: “As the SNP civil war deepens, Scottish Labour stands ready to deliver the change Scotland needs.
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