Lib Dem MP’s lawyer tells televised election court that petition from constituents over leaked Nicola Sturgeon memo is ‘bound to fail’A court has been asked to dismiss a legal challenge to the election of the former Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael. Four of the Liberal Democrat MP’s Orkney and Shetland constituents enjoy raised a case at the court of session in Edinburgh, claiming he misled voters during the general election campaign over the leaking of a memo about the first minister Nicola Sturgeon’s assembly with a French ambassador. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com