The leader of North Lanarkshire Council is at the centre of claims he groped a teenager at a party. Jordan Linden was promoted to the senior position despite SNP party bosses being aware of the complaints.
The senior SNP councillor was nominated for selection to be a candidate in the Westminster election but, four days after the alleged incident in 2019, he announced publicly he would not be standing. At the time he said he wanted to “re-focus on my important work locally in council and on my own health and wellbeing” but several sources have claimed the decision related to the complaint.
The next day officials were contacted on behalf of the young victim, with the party’s compliance officer Ian McCann understood to have reached out to the alleged victim several times. A month later concerns were raised with McCann and the party’s then National Secretary Angus MacLeod that nothing had been done about the complaint.
Linden said the claims were false, he had been cleared of wrongdoing during an internal probe and accused those who made the claims as “spreading lies about me and others”. One activist with knowledge of the 2019 allegation accused the party of “wilful negligence” and said people who report that they have been sexually harassed or assaulted in the SNP are not safe.
Another SNP member with knowledge of the incident said: “Nothing was done, nothing happened and Jordan was promoted to council leader. It’s not good enough and these incidents will just keep happening.
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Why are these creeps in politics, why are they not charged, and why do their leaders always stand by them ?
So once again SNP have looked after the accused hiding the evidence and have done nothing to help the victim. Why was this sexual harrasser promoted NicolaSturgeon ?
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