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EXCL: MP Margaret Ferrier claims SNP chiefs wrote her script apologising for flouting Covid rules then “hung me out to dry" by removing whip - after they saw public reaction. She says SNP bosses wrote that she'd referred herself to police before she had https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/scottish-news/6148554/margaret-ferrier-snp-coronavirus-rules-mp?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sharebarweb
Ferrier: "Someone told me to phone the police and said the statement would say I had already done so."
Ferrier said at 6.52pm - 1hr after her statement - she was told whip was being removed "but I would get back in because I was cooperating"
“Why suddenly have we got to the point where they have to take the whip from me? It was because the statement went out and it escalated."
“Why suddenly have we got to the point where they have to take the whip from me? It was because the statement went out and it escalated."
Margaret Ferrier claims re SNP not acting decisively until they saw public reaction has echoes of CMO Catherine Calderwood scandal - and disgraced Finance Secretary Derek Mackay
With Catherine Calderwood, it took more than a day after SNP Gov were notified of @ScottishSun story re her flouting lockdown rules before they announced she was gone. Initially they defended her https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/5460581/coronavirus-scotland-catherine-calderwood-chief-medic-covid-19/
With Derek Mackay, Scot Gov tried to put up barriers to @ScottishSun story about him pestering a schoolboy with 270 private messages and declined to comment on the article. It was the following morning before a statement was released saying he'd resigned https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/news/5257550/derek-mackay-scottish-sun-justification-snp/
