SNP restores whip to MP Patrick Grady after sexual assault suspension

Alleged victim says end of suspension is slap in face to anyone who has experienced sexual harassment'

The SNP has restored the party whip to a senior MP who has sat as an independent since June after an independent parliamentary inquiry found he made an unwanted sexual advance towards a teenage party worker.

Patrick Grady quit the SNP group at Westminster after a two-day suspension from parliament, imposed after the independent parliamentary standards commissioner found he had made the advances to the then 19-year-old man in 2016. The man to whom he made the advances said the end of Grady's suspension was a slap in the face to anyone who has experienced sexual harassment".