Patrick Grady is seeking re-selection despite being suspended after being found to have acted inappropriately towards a party staffer
Humza Yousaf will campaign "with whoever the candidates are" at next year's election, as an MP suspended after being found to have acted inappropriately towards a party staffer seeks re-selection.
The First Minister was pushed on whether he would be comfortable campaigning alongside Mr Grady, with him having pitched himself as the "first activist" in the SNP leadership campaign and likely to take a leading role in the general election. Mr Yousaf said: "If he's gone through the assessment, cleared the assessment process and the local constituency party, of course, has selected him, then I will be up and down the country campaigning with whoever the candidates are.
"But Patrick Grady will have to go through the vetting process as any other candidate will have to do so and, of course, again like anybody else, his conduct and his behaviour will be part of that assessment during that vetting process."
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