Salmond resigns from SNP amid allegations of sexual harassment
FORMER SCOTTISH first minister Alex Salmond has resigned his membership of the SNP amid allegations of sexual harassment.
Mr Salmond made the revelation in a video message posted on Twitter last night.
Two complaints were raised in January against the ex-SNP leader, who fiercely denies the allegations. He is taking court action against the Scottish Government to contest the complaints process activated against him, with papers lodged at the Court of Session in Edinburgh on Tuesday.
Mr Salmond said he has written to the party’s national secretary to resign his membership.
He stated: “I have been a member of the Scottish National Party for 45 years, 20 of them as party leader and seven as first minister of Scotland. I hope I have done the party and the broader cause of independence some service. I truly love the SNP and the wider independence movement in Scotland. They have been the defining commitment of my life.
“But today I have written to the national secretary of the party resigning my membership.”
Mr Salmond indicated his resignation was to avoid potential divisions within the party and added it is his “absolute intention to reapply for SNP membership “just as soon as I have had the opportunity to clear my name”.
He added that he had urged no one else to relinquish their SNP membership.