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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Aletha Adu Political correspondent

SNP MP John Nicolson cleared of cyberbullying Nadine Dorries

SNP MP John Nicolson.
SNP MP John Nicolson was investigated over tweets he made about Nadine Dorries after a Commons select committee. Photograph: Katherine Anne Rose/The Observer

A Scottish National party (SNP) MP has been cleared of bullying the former cabinet minister Nadine Dorries after a six-month investigation.

John Nicolson, the SNP’s culture secretary, is understood to have been cleared after parliament’s Independent Complaints and Grievance Scheme (ICGS) assessed a series of tweets he made about Dorries while she was culture secretary in Boris Johnson’s cabinet.

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