Andrew Lindsay, a senior corporate lawyer at Morton Legal on Tadcaster Road and former chair of the West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, made the comment on his LinkedIn account
A TOP York lawyer and former chamber of commerce boss has apologised for a social media post in which he suggested a northern Labour MP should be 'dragged through the streets of Teesside and lynched' if he had wrongly raised concerns about a scheme in his constituency.
Andrew Lindsay, a senior corporate lawyer at Morton Legal on Tadcaster Road and former chair of the West & North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce, made the comment on his LinkedIn account after Middlesbrough MP Andy McDonald used parliamentary privilege to allege 'truly shocking, industrial-scale corruption' related to funding in Teesside.
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