SNP MP attacked the party's ruling body in a row over personal vendettas in candidate selection. Joanna Cherry said some of the National Executive Committee should be sacked at a vote during the SNP's annual conference next month.
Cherry was caught up in a bitter tussle for selection in Edinburgh before abandoning a plan to stand for Holyrood next May. Today she claimed unnamed SEC figures of undermining her at last year's UK election and tried to get her deselected."During the General Election campaign briefing against me from NEC sources continued," she told the National newspaper."This was upsetting not just for me but also for the SNP activists who were working hard in winter weather to have me re-elected as an SNP MP rather than.
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