SNP’s Stephen Flynn heckled as he steps up at PMQs
SNP’s Stephen Flynn heckled at PMQs
Stephen Flynn was today heckled as he rose to speak at Prime Minister’s Questions. The SNP’s Westminster leader was met by a wall of jeers from MPs as he stood up to ask his first question to Rishi Sunak.
And Mr Flynn was mocked by the Prime Minister who quipped that he would “motor on with the job” – in reference to a motorhome seized by police as part of their investigation into the SNP’s finances.
Mr Flynn focused on comments by Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross suggesting Tory supporters should vote Labour at the next election if that party’s candidate is best placed to beat the SNP as he quizzed the PM.
Asking his first question, the SNP Westminster leader said: “Was it their refusal to stand alongside striking workers on the picket line, their acceptance of the economic damage being caused by Brexit, or perhaps their support for denying the people of Scotland the right to choose their own future which led to the leader of the Scottish Conservative Party urging voters to back Labour?”
Mr Sunak said: “What we’re doing is not getting distracted by the things that are going on elsewhere. And we’re focused on delivering for the people of Scotland.
“Now I know at the moment him and his party are focused on other matters. We’re just going to motor on with the job.”
Mr Flynn then asked: “We will take no lectures from a party which has not had a mandate to govern in Scotland since 1955. You went through three Prime Ministers in the course of just a matter of months.
“You crashed the economy, you sent mortgage rates soaring, you have taken energy support away from families most in need. Now the Prime Minister has been fined… not once but twice.
“The leader of the Scottish Conservatives believes that the people of Scotland should return Labour Party members of Parliament to this House rather than Scottish National Party members… so isn’t the message to the people of Scotland quite clear: don’t give the Tories what they want.”
Mr Sunak said: “The Scottish Conservatives deserve enormous praise for forcing the SNP into abandoning their completely unworkable, fundamentally flawed deposit return scheme.”
He added: “We look forward to working with them on delivering something that actually works to deliver of the people of Scotland… if (the SNP) can’t fix the mess that Nicola Sturgeon left their party in, how can they possibly fix the mess that she left Scotland in?”
It comes as the SNP has been plunged into turmoil as Police Scotland have been looking into how more than £600,000 in donations to the party earmarked for an independence referendum had been used.
Earlier this month, former party chief executive Peter Murrell was arrested and questioned for more than 11 hours before being released without charge “pending further investigation”.
Yesterday, SNP treasurer Colin Beattie was arrested and was also released without charge “pending further investigation” later in the day.
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