SNP youth convener accuses Labour peer of being drunk

ONE of the SNP’s leading youth figures has accused a senior Scottish Labour politician of being drunk during a House of Lords debate.

David Linden, the national convener of SNP Youth who also works for Glasgow Shettleston MSP John Mason, said in a post on Twitter that Lord Foulkes was “probably drunk again” in the Lords chamber.

The row came after Gail Lythgoe, who sits on the party’s national executive and heads its youth wing, admitted she “went too far” in an e-mail she sent about a Labour MP.

Labour’s business manager at Holyrood Paul Martin called for Ms Lythgoe and Mr Linden to be suspended from their posts.

Mr Martin said: “How exactly did Mr Linden come to this conclusion about George Foulkes? Was he in the Lords? Or did he just make it up to smear him?”

An SNP spokeswoman said that Mr Linden had “been told to remove any such post” when asked about the Lord Foulkes tweet.