RUTH Davidson has suggested her party will change how it deals with sexual misconduct allegations following recent criticism.
Scottish Tory MSP Miles Briggs was cleared of sexual harassment at a hearing of the party's disciplinary committee last week.
But charity Rape Crisis criticised the way the complaint was handled and called on the Scottish Conservatives to "urgently change their approach to investigating sexual harassment complaints".
At the time, party leader Ruth Davidson tweeted that she had "confidence in the robustness of the disciplinary process the party has put in place".
She has now said it may look at changing the way such allegations are handled.
Speaking on BBC Scotland's Good Morning Scotland radio programme, Ms Davidson said: "We're happy to review our processes and one thing we might have to look at, I think, is whether complaints of sexual harassment are dealt with in the way same way, because at the moment they are, within the same framework of other disciplinary procedures like, for example, bullying.
"It might be that we have to separate that."
She added: "What we will have to review and the management board of our party will have to review is whether we make a recommendation for changes to that procedure."
Ms Davidson said the decision would be taken at the management level of the party and stressed there was currently no requirement for a complainant to give evidence in person.
It comes as she was accused of losing control of her party's representatives after Scottish Tory MP Ross Thomson branded Theresa May's Chequers plan an "unmitigated disaster".
Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: "Ross Thomson has chosen the Brexit fundamentalists over her."
Mr Briggs faced accusations that he made persistent unwanted advances to a female worker from another party on the evening of a parliamentary social event in February.
The Lothian MSP was cleared of any wrongdoing last Monday when the panel found his account of events to be "credible" and it dismissed the complaint.
Mr Briggs described the allegations as "completely false" and said he had been through "a living hell".
The complainant said she was "gutted" by the outcome and hit out at the complaints process.
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