SNP’s Fergus Ewing urges party to ditch Greens pact as suspension confirmed
by Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6JZ0X)
MSP hits out at authoritarian' party leadership after losing appeal against disciplinary action
One of the SNP leadership's fiercest critics has called on the party to change course and ditch its dreadful" governing partnership with the Scottish Greens, as he lost his appeal against a week-long suspension from the Holyrood group.
Fergus Ewing, one of the party's longest-serving MSPs, a former minister and son of the SNP icon Winnie Ewing, faced disciplinary action after he voted against the government on a no-confidence motion against the Green minister Lorna Slater brought by the Scottish Tories, prompted by her handling of the deposit return scheme.
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