The Conservative Party MP David Davis has used parliamentary privilege to state that he was given messages by a whistle blower regarding the SNP’s a handing of the Alex Salmond affair. Mr Davis MP says that the messages show a “concerted effort by senior members of the SNP to encourage complaints” against Mr Salmond.
David Davis spoke in an adjournment debate and said: “The information consisted of a download of text messages from the telephone of Sue Ruddick, the Chief Operating Officer of the SNP. Now Alex Salmond has asserted that there has been a ‘malicious and concerted attempt to remove me from public life in Scotland’. These are incredibly grave charges. The whistle blower clearly agrees with those charges. He or she starts their communication with the assertion that the evidence provided, and I quote ‘point to collusion, perjury, up to criminal conspiracy”.
It has also been claimed by Mr Davis, that the messages he has received show that the First Minister’s Chief of Staff was aware of the allegations against Mr Salmond months before originally stated. Mr Davis said: “I have it on good authority that there exists from the 6th of February 2018 an exchange of messages between civil servants Judith McKinnon and Barbara Alison, suggesting the First Minister’s Chief of Staff is interfering in the complaints process against Alex Salmond. If true, this suggests the Chief of Staff had knowledge of the Salmond case in February, not in April, as she has claimed on oath”.
The leader of the Scottish Conservative party is Douglas Ross, and he has responded to these developments by saying: “If the First Minister’s side were aware of complaints against Alex Salmond in February 2018, an outrageous breach of those women’s privacy and confidentiality has occurred. February 2018 is also two months before Nicola Sturgeon originally claimed to find out about complaints. If her chief of staff knew then, and was interfering in the investigation, it blows another enormous hole in the First Minister’s story”.
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