An MP who accused a leading campaigner of being an “outed Holocaust denier” has apologised for the slur and agreed to pay £10,000 in compensation.
Natalie McGarry, the Scottish National Party MP for Glasgow East, also called Scotland in Union director Alastair Cameron an “internet troll” in a tweet posted on March 6.
As part of the agreement with Mr Cameron, she tweeted today that she had “made a serious mistake and accept there is no truth to those statements and apologise unreservedly to Mr Cameron for any distress caused”.
The apology was initially hidden from public sight after Ms McGarry made her account private, but was made public after a tweet from Mr Cameron warned her to take action, “or regrettably there may be further [actions] from my solicitor”.
