A Perth and Kinross councillor has been cleared by a watchdog of an alleged breach of the councillor’s code of conduct.Councillor Lewis Simpson was accused of breaching the code by suggesting to a constituent that elected representatives other than himself could be “persuaded” to ask probing questions at a planning meeting concerning the controversial Cross Tay Link Road.The Strathmore councillor was said to have used the term “persuaded” in an email sent to the constituent on October 16, 2020 - a day before the local authority’s planning committee was scheduled to consider an application for the formation of the link road.Perth City Centre councillor Eric Drysdale, understood to have received the same email by mistake, argued in a
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