Mhairi Black should apologise or quit as deputy, says SNP MP
Joanna Cherry accused her colleague of making it harder for fellow nationalists to win their seats at the next election
Mhairi Black claimed that some SNP MPs “appear slightly more comfortable than I think you should be” in Westminster
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One of the SNP’s most prominent MPs has told the party’s deputy leader at Westminster to quit or apologise after she claimed some nationalists had become too comfortable in London.
Joanna Cherry said that Mhairi Black had hampered the chances of “so many of her colleagues [who] are facing difficulties to hang on to their seats”.
Black enraged several of her colleagues when she told Times Radio that she had encountered SNP MPs who “appear slightly more comfortable than I think you should be”.
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She refused to say if she meant anyone from the current group in the Commons but the comment has already been turned into an attack advert by Alex Salmond’s Alba Party.
