One Of Alex Salmond’s closest aides has denied the late first minister leaked details of his sexual harassment investigation to the media. ‌

Chris McEleny, former Alba party General Secretary and bagman for Salmond said the suggestion by Nicola Sturgeon in her memoir, Frankly, was “blatantly untrue”. ‌

Sturgeon claimed in the book that it could have been Salmond himself who disclosed to the media details of a Scottish Government investigation into sexual harassment complaints against him. ‌

The details of specific complaints that had been investigated were revealed by our sister paper the Daily Record in August 2018.

However McEleny said he was confident Salmond did not leak the material as he would have been the one to do it on his behalf. Article continues below

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