Angus MacNeil has announced he has been expelled from the SNP. MacNeil was suspended from the party's Westminster group last month after reportedly clashing with chief whip Brendan O'Hara.The party's conduct committee met on Thursday to discuss his case after he refused to immediately rejoin the group at the end of his suspension.
MacNeil, 53, has represented the Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles) constituency since 2005.He tweeted about his expulsion, using a kangaroo emoji to refer to the member conduct committee.
He said: "The Summer of Member Expulsion, has indeed come to pass. 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.
I wish they were as bothered about independence as they are about me!"He was suspended from the Westminster group for a week in early July following reports of a row with Mr O'Hara in the House of Commons.
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