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An SNP MSP has had the whip removed following “utterly abhorrent” comments about the Israel-Hamas conflict. The party confirmed it has taken action following social media comments from Glasgow ...
In April 2024, Humza Yousaf, first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP), faced a confidence challenge following his termination of the Bute House Agreement between the SNP and the Scottish Greens, which meant that Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater, co-leaders of the Greens and their only government ministers, were removed from government. [2]
Some SNP politicians, including Ash Regan MSP, called for Sturgeon to be suspended from the party, but new leader Humza Yousaf said he would not suspend her as she had not been charged. [58] By the end of June, the SNP was reported to be ready to submit audited accounts to the Electoral Commission ahead of a deadline of 7 July.
There are even sitting Scottish government ministers whose Holyrood careers began when they took on a sitting SNP MSP. And other parties have similar internal mechanisms for contests.
It follows SNP MP Angus MacNeil’s call for Ms Sturgeon’s suspension, tweeting: “This soap-opera has gone far enough, Nicola Sturgeon suspended others from the SNP for an awful lot less!”
Keith James Brown (born 20 December 1961) is a Scottish politician serving as Depute Leader of the Scottish National Party (SNP) since 2018. He is a former Royal Marines commando and has been a Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) since 2007, first representing the Ochil constituency from 2007 to 2011, then the Clackmannanshire and Dunblane constituency since 2011.
The veteran MSP lost the party whip in August over a social media post in which he denied a genocide was taking place in Gaza. John Mason expelled from SNP over ‘utterly abhorrent’ Gaza ...
This is a list of Scottish National Party MPs. It includes all members of Parliament elected to the House of Commons representing the Scottish National Party since the party's formation. Members of the Scottish Parliament or the European Parliament are not listed as they are separate entities.