Six of the worst SNP sex scandals

It seems a fresh scandal is embroiling the SNP. In recent days, reports have emerged that two of the party’s politicians were so wrapped up in an extramarital affair during Covid that they disregarded their own government’s pandemic restrictions to continue it. Matt Hancock, step aside… 

The SNP has denied the rumours as ‘categorically untrue’, but reports of the illicit affair continue to dominate the news. Mr S takes a look at some of the most recent SNP sex scandals to have hit the headlines. Here are six of the worst that we can report on:

1. Love triangle

A storyline fit for the movies, this scandal began with three love-rats and ended in two broken marriages. In 2016 it emerged that Serena Cowdy, journalist for political magazine the House, had been involved with married father-of-three, SNP MP Angus MacNeil during the independence referendum campaign. Only a few months later, Cowdy moved on to another lover: deputy leader of the SNP at the time, Stewart Hosie.