The SNP’s deputy Westminster leader, who was formerly HR boss at a troubled Lanarkshire college, has been accused of “hiding behind a wall of silence” by refusing to disclose what she knew about stinging allegations of systematic bullying, intimidation and fraud within the institution’s ranks.
MP for East Renfrewshire, Kirsten Oswald, was drawn into the ongoing saga surrounding South Lanarkshire College when Central Scotland MSP Graham Simpson declared in the Scottish Parliament last week that he has been informed “she knew what was going on” at the institution where she was head of HR from 2003 to 2015.
Mr Simpson maintains that, as a public figure, Ms Oswald – who held the senior position at the college for 12 years under the watch of former principal, Stewart McKillop – “should say what she knew and whether she was asked to do anything.”
