THE SNP’s defence of former health secretary Michael Matheson is playing “straight out of Boris Johnson’s Tory sleaze playbook,”Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar has said.

The Falkirk West MSP is facing a 27-sitting day suspension from Holyrood over the near £11,000 iPad data roaming bill he initially claimed had been for constituency work.

He U-turned before it later emerged his teenage sons had used the iPad as a hotspot to watch football during a family holiday to Morocco around Christmas 2022.