BOTH of the losing candidates in the SNP’s 2023 leadership race voted against the suspension of rebel MSP Fergus Ewing from the party, according…
. He voted with the Conservatives in a no-confidence motion against Green minister Lorna Slater in June.
Ewing has also claimed that electing Humza Yousaf as its new leader, and not Kate Forbes, was the biggest mistake the SNP has ever made.Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil was also suspended from the SNP for one week after a public clash with then-chief whip Brendan O’Hara. However, when his suspension ended, MacNeil declined to rejoin the party,Asked if he would rejoin, Ewing told journalists: “I have been suspended for a week, that was the decision of the group.
“The SNP is not an ordinary party – we are a party that has always put Scotland first, and that means to me, putting the interests of the people of Scotland first. “But in good conscience, and it grieves me to say this, I don’t believe that is any longer the case.” Net Zero Secretary Mairi McAllan previously defended Ewing’s suspension as proportionate, telling the“It is something I certainly would expect to be the outcome if I had done what Fergus did.
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