SNP demand probe into whether Douglas Alexander broke ministerial code

Douglas Alexander and Peter Mandelson (Image: PA)

THE SNP have demanded the Prime Minister's independent ethics adviser investigate whether Douglas Alexander has broken the ministerial code.

The party's Westminster leader Dave Doogan has written to Sir Laurie Magnus, the prime minister's independent adviser on ministerial standards, asking for an "urgent investigation" into Alexander's conduct after files showed Peter Mandelson introduced him to a lobbying firm he set up with links to Russia and China and this was not declared.