Ewing slams SNP colleagues' ‘shameful’ treatment of Salmond
Alex Salmond, leader of the Scottish National Party, April 14, 2005
AN SNP MSP has branded party colleagues’ treatment of former leader Alex Salmond as “pathetic and “shameful.”
Writing in The Times newspaper in the wake of the former first minister’s fatal heart attack on Saturday, Fergus Ewing said the party Mr Salmond “led to victory turned against him and quite literally erased him from their history.”
He added: “He made them. They in turn spurned and shunned him.
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