To Scotland, where outrage is spreading after news that a former sex pest politician has landed a top charity job. It transpires that disgraced ex-SNP MP Patrick Grady has been appointed to a senior role at a Scottish government-funded charity – while his victim claims Grady’s actions ‘ended’ his career. Good heavens…
Mr S would remind readers that in 2022, the UK parliament’s standards watchdog ruled that Grady had made an ‘unwanted sexual advance’ to an SNP staffer while ‘under the influence of alcohol’ at a pub six years earlier, where he was found to have stroked the young man’s neck, hair and back. Now the SNP’s former chief whip has been made the policy and communications chief at Scotland’s International Development Alliance (SIDA) where, to much indignation, his website profile fails to mention his history of misconduct.
Grady’s victim has now hit out at the appointment, telling the Sunday Post that the ex-MP’s actions had caused ‘real harm to real people’.
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