Western Isles MP Angus MacNeil expelled from SNP
11 August 2023
MP Angus MacNeil has been expelled from the SNP.
The party’s conduct committee met on Thursday to consider his future within the SNP.
Mr MacNeil faced an allegation of breaching the party’s code of conduct following his refusal last month to rejoin the SNP Westminster parliamentary group following a week long suspension.
He took to Twitter to announce: “The Summer of Member Expulsion has indeed come to pass. As I have been expelled as a rank and file SNP member by a “member conduct committee.”
“I didn't leave the SNP - the SNP have left me.
“I wish they were as bothered about independence as they are about me.”
He used a kangaroo emoji in reference to the SNP conduct committee.
The Western Isles representative was banished for a week from the SNP’s UK Parliament group in early July after clashing with the party’s chief whip, Brendan O'Hara.
He resisted a return to the fold while also slamming the SNP’s “lack of urgency” over independence.
The SNP national secretary referred the matter to its conduct committee which has now concluded he is no longer welcomed in the party.
Mr Macneil now sits as an independent MP, representing the Western Isles in the House of Commons.
He previously pledged to stand at the next election in Na h-Eileanan an Iar - a move which risks splitting the independence vote and strengthens Torcuil Crichton’s bid to claim the seat for Labour.
