There’s a fresh development in the SNP’s ongoing civil war: Joanna Cherry QC, one of the party’s most prominent MPs, has been sacked from her role on the SNP’s front bench team in Westminster.
Ian Blackford, the party’s leader in Westminster, quietly announced a reshuffle of the party’s London team in a statement this morning, omitting to mention the most notable removal of Cherry from her role as justice and home affairs spokesperson. Instead, Cherry broke the news herself:
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