Veteran MSP Fergus Ewing has been an outspoken critic of the party's leadership over the past year. | ITV National News
Flanked by his sister and fellow SNP MSP Annabelle Ewing, former party leadership contender Kate Forbes and MSP Christine Grahame, as well as his lawyer John Campbell KC, Mr Ewing said: “I bit my tongue when I didn’t agree with certain policies the party was was promoting.”
“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.Asked how he would conduct himself in the future, Mr Ewing said: “What am I to do now? “Or am I to proceed as I have done, and speak out fearlessly on these matters, as I’ve done and apply the same pressure, which I did along with others, which has already junked the deposit return scheme and the HPMAs?Mr Ewing has traded barbs with the Scottish Greens in recent months, describing the party as “wine bar revolutionaries” and “hard left extremists”, as well as calling the atmosphere within the SNP group “toxic”.
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