Angus MacNeil: SNP MP announces expulsion from party after chief whip row

SNP MP Angus MacNeil has announced he has been expelled from the party after being suspended from its Westminster group last month. 

He had been suspended after a reported clash with party chief whip Brendan O’Hara. 

The SNP conduct committee met on Thursday after he refused to rejoin the group at the end of his suspension. 

“The Summer of Member Expulsion, has indeed come to pass,” the MP wrote in a post on X, formerly known as Twitter. “As I have been expelled as a rank & file SNP member by a ‘member conduct committee.'”

“I didn’t leave the SNP – the SNP have left me,” he added. “I wish they were as bothered about independence as they are about me!”

He also tweeted a kangaroo emoji in an apparent reference to the conduct committee.