SNP anger over debate

THE SNP should re-examine the issue of whether to withdraw MPs from Westminster following the chaos over its motion on Gaza, the party's depute leader has said.

There were angry scenes in the Commons last week following Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle's decision to allow a debate on a Labour amendment to the SNP's motion calling for a ceasefire.

The Speaker apologised to MPs and then offered another debate to the SNP, which had not been able to vote on its own motion in the first instance, but last Monday the request for a debate was turned down. 

Writing in The Sunday National, Keith Brown, SNP depute leader, said the "tradition whereby Westminster sidelines, marginalises or suppresses Scotland is not new."