MICHAEL Matheson “made mistakes and should be punished”, the depute leader of the SNP has said ...
Former health secretary Michael Matheson is facing calls to resign as an MSP after lying about an £11,000 iPad roaming billKeith Brown backed sanctions against his colleague, who was forced to resign as health secretary after racking up an £11,000 iPad roaming bill and then lying about it, when speaking on theBrown said it was for the standards committee to decide Matheson’s punishment, but it should be done “properly”.
Speaking on the BBC on Sunday, Brown said Matheson “should be punished” but declined to say what that punishment should look like. Brown added that deciding Matheson’s punishment was for “the standards committee to do properly but I think in this case, they've not done it properly”.He went on: “You've had one member of the standards committee making public statements before she even considered the evidence.
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