Election court hears that former Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael misled inquiry until after retaining Westminster seat
Alistair Carmichael deliberately misled a Cabinet Office inquiry over the leak of a memo on Nicola Sturgeon’s view of May’s general election to save his political career,an election court in Edinburgh has been told.
Jonathan Mitchell QC told the hearing that the former Scottish secretary failed until 12 May to uncover an investigation that he authorised the so-called Frenchgate memo to be leaked, five days after he narrowly saved his seat of Orkney and Shetland.
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Source: theguardian.com