A senior Edinburgh councillor has been left 'shaken' after being attacked while delivering newsletters in his constituency. Kevin Lang, leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrat group in Edinburgh City Council, says he was grabbed by the throat and sworn at by an angry voter in South Queensferry.
Mr Lang believes the man waited for him to pass after earlier posting a newsletter through his door. He says the enraged man followed him down the street as he attempted to avoid the confrontation before assaulting him and stuffing the leaflet down his shirt.
The Liberal Democrat leader says while he has received verbal abuse before he has never seen an incident like it in his 25 years in politics. Writing on social media he slammed the 'intimidation' and said it has 'no place in a free and democratic society'.
