Ian Blackford accuses Alex Salmond of 'stirring the pot' in SNP leadership race,Salmond, a former SNP leader, suggested that Humza Yousaf skipped a vote on same-sex marriage due to "religious pressure".
Ian Blackford accuses Alex Salmond of ‘stirring the pot’ in SNP leadership race
Ian Blackford has accused Alex Salmond of trying to "stir the pot" in the SNP leadership contest.
The former First Minister said yesterday that Humza Yousaf, one of three candidates aiming to replace Nicola Sturgeon, had skipped a 2014 vote at Holyrood on same-sex marriage due to "religious pressure".
The social views of the next SNP leader have become a key talking point after Kate Forbes said she would have voted against the legislation if she had been an MSP at the time.
Blackford, the party's former Westminster leader, said today that Yousaf had already reaffirmed his support for gay marriage and "equality for everybody throughout Scotland".
Yousaf, a junior minister in 2014, voted in favour of the bill at Stage 1 but missed the final stage due after arranging a meeting with the Pakistani Government.
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Yousaf said he missed the vote over the case of a Scottish citizen on death row in Pakistan.
He claimed: “There was a series of meetings taking place between myself and the Pakistani government to get this individual back home. One of those meetings was during the stage three vote.
"Let me be unequivocal about it – if I was there I would have voted for it. That was well known at the time."
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