MSPs are set to vote on whether the former SNP health secretary should be suspended from parliament following an expenses row.
John Swinney has denied an ongoing row over Michael Matheson has overshadowed the start of the SNP 's general election campaign.
Matheson, a veteran Nationalist, attempted to use taxpapers' cash to cover an £11,000 data roaming bill racked up on his official iPad during a family holiday to Morocco. Matheson has come under pressure to resign after Holyrood's standards committee last week recommended he should be suspended for 27 days and have his salary stripped for 54 days.
Asked by the Record if the row had overshadowed the first week of the campaign, the SNP leader said today: "No. Because I have been out and about, talking to lots of people, as part of my travels around the country.
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