SNP risks another by-election as MP says she was shunned for challenging sex pest
dailyrecord.co.ukAn SNP MP says she felt shunned by the party hierarchy after she spoke out against a sex pest colleague.Lisa Cameron had to have counselling after fellow Nationalist MPs accused her of not being a team player and refused to engage with her in Parliament.
Now she faces a challenge to remain the party’s candidate in East Kilbride, in a row that could lead to yet another by-election.Cameron said her problems got worse after she challenged colleagues over their treatment of a young staffer who was sexually harassed by an SNP MP.
Patrick Grady, the former SNP Westminster chief whip, inappropriately touched the 19-year-old on a party night out.A Commons sleaze watchdog in June last year found he had made “unwanted sexual advances”, including touching and stroking the neck, hair and back of the teenager at a London pub in 2016.
The probe concluded that he had significantly breached Parliament's sexual misconduct policy and he was handed a two-day suspension from the Commons.SNP MPs were directed by Ian Blackford, who was Westminster leader, to give their “absolute full support” to Mr Grady at a group meeting held in the wake of the report.
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