The right-hand man of the SNP ’s new leader at Westminster travelled across two council areas and flew to Northern Ireland at the height of the Covid pandemic, it has emerged.
Coatbridge MP Steven Bonnar – parliamentary private secretary to Stephen Flynn – went on a four-day trip to Belfast days after Nicola Sturgeon increased restrictions amid fears that the virus was getting out of control.
Shamed sex pest MP Patrick Grady, the party’s chief whip at the time, was aware of the plans despite knowing the advice given by the First Minister was to stay at home.
