Sacked researcher 'not a mole for SSP'

THE Scottish Socialists denied yesterday that an SNP researcher had worked for them as a "mole" in the Scottish Parliament.

Mary Spowart, who worked for Kenny MacAskill and Tricia Marwick, two front bench SNP MSPs, was fired after allegedly passing documents to the SSP.

Hugh Kerr, the SSP press officer, denied Ms Spowart had been working as a mole and sending the SSP confidential e-mails and documents. "That's ridiculous," he said, "because we are not interested in what the SNP are up to." The Herald