Finance Secretary Derek Mackay alleged to have messaged boy, 16

The way forward for Scotland’s finance secretary is in query after a newspaper alleged he had been sending messages to a 16-year-old boy.

Derek Mackay is because of current the Scottish government’s budget at Holyrood on Thursday afternoon.

The Scottish Solar alleges that he contacted the boy on social media over a six-month interval, inviting him to dinner and to attend a rugby occasion.

The BBC has contacted the Scottish authorities and Mr Mackay for remark.

The newspaper particulars allegations that the 42-year-old politician contacted the boy “out of the blue” and spoke to him on Instagram and thru Fb.

It has printed a listing of conversations involving Mr Mackay and the boy.

In one of many exchanges it’s claimed that Mr Mackay instructed {the teenager} he was “cute”. In one other the boy confirmed he was 16 and tells Mr Mackay “to not strive something”.

The paper additionally quotes the boy’s mom calling for Mr Mackay to be faraway from his publish.

Mr Mackay, who has been extensively tipped as a future first minister, got here out as homosexual when he left his spouse in 2013.

The allegations come on the identical day he is because of current the Scottish authorities’s spending plans for the subsequent years at Holyrood.

He had signalled his intention to spend extra on initiatives to deal with local weather change in his funds, however will want the help of different events to go his plans.