Justice Secretary refuses to quit post

Scotland's Justice Secretary has refused to quit her post - despite a report by independent advisers finding she twice breached the code of conduct setting out how ministers should behave.

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Angela Constance was found to have broken the ministerial code - although a report said she had done this “without any deliberation or intention to mislead”.

Despite that, she faced calls from both Labour and the Scottish Conservatives to quit the cabinet after being accused of misleading Holyrood by misrepresenting an independent expert on grooming gangs during a debate last year.