SNP MP Pete Wishart under fire over Commons Speaker ambitions
SNP MP Pete Wishart has come under fire from pro-independence activists on social media after announcing he will seek to become the next speaker of the House of Commons.
Mr Wishart, the MP for Perth and North Perthshire and the SNP’s parliamentary business spokesman, posted on twitter on Tuesday that he wanted to be “the first post-war Speaker to emerge from beyond the two main parties”.
In a manifesto for the role, Mr Wishart said it was “time for a Speaker to come from beyond the big two parties to demonstrate that Parliament represents all shades of political opinion and all parts of the UK”.
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