Humza Yousaf will campaign "with whoever the candidates are" at next year's election, as an MP suspended after being found to have acted inappropriately towards a party staffer seeks re-selection.
Reports suggested on Monday that Patrick Grady was seeking re-selection in his Glasgow North seat for the SNP, despite spending six months as an independent last year following an investigation of the accusations by parliamentary authorities. Mr Grady was suspended from the House of Commons for two days and apologised in Parliament, saying: "I am profoundly sorry for my behaviour and I deeply regret my actions and their consequences."
The First Minister was pushed on whether he would be comfortable campaigning alongside Mr Grady, with him having pitched himself as the "first activist" in the SNP leadership campaign and likely to take a leading role in the general election. Mr Yousaf said: "If he's gone through the assessment, cleared the assessment process and the local constituency party, of course, has selected him, then I will be up and down the country campaigning with whoever the candidates are. But that's a hypothetical point."
