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Daily Record
Daily Record
Politics
Paul Hutcheon

Scottish Liberal Democrats suspend councillor charged with electoral fraud

A councillor has been suspended by the Scottish Liberal Democrats after being charged with electoral fraud.

The party took the action on Sunday after a newspaper report about Aileen Polson, who represents Milngavie on East Dunbartonshire council.

The Sunday Times reported that she and her husband, fellow councillor Andrew Polson, had been charged with falsely claiming that they lived in the council area when their family home was in Glasgow’s east end.

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