South Lanarkshire Labour calls for probe into Rutherglen MSP

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The South Lanarkshire Labour Group is calling for a probe on a former children’s minister.The political group has lashed out at former children’s minister and Rutherglen MSP Clare Haughey and calls for a parliamentary probe for her work in government.The group have called for ex-ministers to be hauled in front of a Holyrood Committee after the Children’s Commissioner warned that Nicola Sturgeon’s government failed on key objectives it set for itself.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Both Nicola Sturgeon and Clare Haughey should be hauled before a Parliamentary Committee to account for their broken promises and failures in office.“Never before has the record of a government been so comprehensively rebuked by a Children’s Commissioner.

This cannot pass unnoticed. There has to be accountability and there has to be change.“These are tough times for all of us but there can be no doubt that the excessive