Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.Shamed politician Derek Mackay has been savaged by the woman who hopes to win his seat exactly one year on from his spectacular fall.Scottish Conservative and Unionist candidate Julie Pirone branded it “shameful and disgraceful” that Mackay has clung onto his job.It was a year ago on Saturday that he was forced to resign as SNP Finance Secretary.Details of his inappropriate messages to a 16-year-old boy emerged, including one where he called the lad “cute”.Mrs Pirone, standing in the Renfrewshire North and West seat in May’s Scottish Parliament election, says Mr Mackay will have earned over £150,000 in salary and expenses since losing his ministerial.
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