Alex Salmond inquiry no right to private communications, claims SNP officer
Our Politics newsletter is now daily. Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish politics news sent straight to your inbox.A senior SNP party figure has demanded a halt to any publication of private messages sought by Holyrood's Alex Salmond inquiry.Susan Ruddick, the SNP chief operating officer, said she was the subject of "bullying and intimidation".The committee of MSPs wanted to obtain documents detailing communications between Ruddick and Scottish government ministers, civil servants or special advisers between August 2018 and January 2019.