A LEADING businessman dumped as a Scottish Conservative candidate on the eve of the Holyrood election has received a hefty out-of-court settlement from his former party.
Malcolm Macaskill, whose removal paved the way for new party leader Ruth Davidson to get to Holyrood, got the five-figure pay-out after threatening to sue over the Tories' handling of his sacking.
In an interview with the Sunday Herald, Macaskill blasted the Tory machine as "rotten to the core" and said the Scottish party was an "inept and morally corrupt" organisation.
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