Scotland’s chief medical officer has been accused of breaking the Civil Service Code for promoting an SNP political attack.
Professor Sir Gregor Smith is bound by the Civil Service Code to be “impartial” and “objective”.
However, on Wednesday, he retweeted a blatant political attack from Humza Yousaf against the UK Government.
The Scottish Conservatives said this was “inappropriate” for a civil servant and the code had clearly been broken.
Scottish Conservative Shadow Minister for Public Health, Sue Webber MSP said: “It is inappropriate for a civil servant to be promoting political messaging.
“The Civil Service Code emphasises the need for impartiality and objectivity. Those requirements appear to have been clearly broken in this instance.
“He has done good work throughout the pandemic but Professor Smith should be above these SNP political attacks.
“We need to hear a clear explanation from the Chief Medical Officer. I certainly do not understand how he could possibly think this is acceptable.”
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See screengrab below of Professor Smith’s retweet:
