Angus MacNeil: SNP MP announces expulsion from party after chief whip row

MP Angus MacNeil has announced helium has been expelled from the SNP aft helium was suspended from its Westminster radical past month.

The Na h-Eileanan an Iar (Western Isles) MP had been suspended aft reportedly clashing with enactment main whip Brendan O'Hara.

The SNP behaviour committee met connected Thursday aft helium refused to rejoin the radical astatine the extremity of his suspension.

The BBC has approached the SNP for remark connected Mr MacNeil's announcement.

"The Summer of Member Expulsion, has so travel to pass," the MP wrote successful a station connected X, formerly known arsenic Twitter. "As I person been expelled arsenic a fertile & record SNP subordinate by a 'member behaviour committee.'"

"I didn't permission the SNP - the SNP person near me," helium added. "I privation they were arsenic bothered astir independency arsenic they are astir me!"

He besides tweeted a kangaroo emoji successful an evident notation to the behaviour committee.

Mr MacNeil was 1 of the SNP's longest-serving MPs, having archetypal been elected successful 2005, but has been a vocal professional of the enactment enactment successful caller years, peculiarly implicit its independency strategy.

He was progressive successful a enactment with main whip Mr O'Hara successful July implicit missing votes successful the House of Commons.

It was alleged helium had threatened Mr O'Hara during a confrontation - an allegation Mr MacNeil denies - and helium had the whip removed for a week.

Following the falling-out, helium announced helium would beryllium arsenic an autarkic MP until astatine slightest October.

His rank of the enactment was suspended arsenic helium refused to instantly rejoin the SNP group.

He past released a connection attacking the SNP leadership's attack to independence, accusing it of a deficiency of urgency. "I volition lone question the SNP whip again if it is wide that the SNP are pursuing independence," helium wrote.