NewsPoliticsFormer Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson has unwittingly revealed the Scottish address of a UK spy chief.<\/p>\n
Monday, 30th March 2020, 4:17 pm<\/p>\n
In a now-deleted tweet, Ms Davidson responsed to the announcement of the new head of MI5, by making a comment which roughly gave away the Scottish address of his opposite number in MI6.<\/p>\n
Ken McCallum, a Glaswegian, was revealed as the new MI5 chief today and Alex Younger of MI6 studied at St Andrews University and has retained a flat in Scotland.<\/p>\n
In her social media gaffe, Ms Davidson revealed that Mr Younger lived in the line of sight of a well known address.<\/p>\n
Angus Robertson, the former SNP deputy leader who was a member of Westminsters intelligence and security committee and who hopes to stand in Ms Davidsons constituency at the next Holyrood elections, said the tweet was quite extraordinary and utterly reckless. <\/p>\n
He added: Why on earth she thought it was a good idea to publicise the home location of the head of MI6 is utterly beyond me. This is an ill-considered act of brash negligence.<\/p>\n
When news of Mr McCallums appointment broke, SNP MP Stewart McDonald said on Twitter that MI6 chief Alex Younger had also studied in Scotland.<\/p>\n
Ms Davidson responded: And splits his time between Edinburgh and London and went on to say his house was within line-of-sight of a well-known location.<\/p>\n
SNP MP Stewart McDonald replied: Assuming the bit on his house is meant to be a joke? If not, Im not sure the head of Mi6 would be overly excited to see the rough whereabouts of his address published.<\/p>\n
A spokesman for the Scottish Conservatives said that Ms Davidson had thought she had sent the message privately and as soon as she realised it was public she took it down.<\/p>\n
He added: She feels like a right pillock for this mistake and wishes to apologise very sincerely to Mr Younger.<\/p>\n
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