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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Severin Carrell, Conrad Landin and Libby Brooks

Scottish Labour accused of trying to hide candidate’s link to scandal-hit firm

Davy Russell
Davy Russell worked for two days a week for a subsidiary of Mears Group from the start of 2025 until he was selected as Labour’s byelection candidate in April. Photograph: Murdo MacLeod/The Guardian

Labour is facing questions over transparency after it failed to disclose that a byelection candidate worked for a company previously embroiled in a data falsification scandal.

The party has not told voters in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse byelection that its candidate, Davy Russell, worked as a consultant to a subsidiary of Mears Group in the neighbouring area of North Lanarkshire.

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