Scottish Labour suspends MSP Pam Duncan Glancy – Worldwide Dispatch

The Labour whip within the Scottish Parliament has been faraway from MSP Pam Duncan-Glancy whereas the occasion investigates her hyperlinks with a convicted intercourse offender.

She stood down as her occasion’s schooling spokesperson in December and mentioned she would depart Holyrood in Could after revelations about her friendship with former Moray councillor Sean Morton.

Earlier Labour eliminated the whip within the Home of Lords from new peer Matthew Doyle, Sir Keir Starmer’s former director of communications, to permit an investigation into his hyperlinks to Morton.

A Scottish Labour spokesperson mentioned: “All complaints are assessed totally consistent with our guidelines and procedures.”