Alexander escapes Holyrood ban

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The Scottish Parliament's Standards Committee had recommended Ms Alexander be barred from Holyrood for a day after it decided she broke the rules by failing to register donations to her leadership campaign within the required 30 days.

But MSPs rejected that by 49 votes to 70, with two abstentions.

Afterwards Ms Alexander described the result as "a victory for the law, for natural justice and for common sense".

Ms Alexander resigned as Labour's Holyrood leader in June - two days after the Standards Committee had recommended the ban.

She said: "Some will question why I resigned.

"I said in June I was not prepared to allow this matter to dominate over the summer. No-one can doubt it would have done so had I remained Labour leader in Scotland.

"I judged that not to be in the interests of either the Labour Party or the country."