THE SNP look set to agree to suspend former health secretary Michael Matheson from the Scottish parliament for 27 days ...
MSP Martin Whitfield, the convener of the Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments Committee, which asks MSPs to agree to the recommended punishments for Matheson.
The standards committee recommended a suspension of 27 days and a loss of pay for 54 days over the incident, but last week SNP First Minister John Swinney said he could not back the recommendations.An amendment to Whitfield’s motion which would enact the sanctions, tabled by Forbes, does not remove any of the recommendations.The suggestion is that the SNP will back both the motion as amended, which would see Matheson suspended for 27 days.
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