A senior SNP official has been accused of "jaw-dropping interference" after a sexual harassment allegation was made against the party’s council leader in North Lanarkshire.
SNP national secretary Lorna Finn emailed councillors ahead of a crunch meeting on Jordan Linden’s future to say no complaint had been made against him.
Louise Roarty, a Scottish Labour councillor in North Lanarkshire, said: “This is jaw-dropping interference from the party’s upper echelons.