Two senior SNP MPs have quit the front bench days after Stephen Flynn was elected his party's new Westminster leader.
Pete Wishart told Flynn he was “bemused” by his decision to go for the leadership when support for independence is running at over 50 per cent.
In a letter brimming with sarcasm, he added: "Usually change of this significance accompanies failure, whereas we are looking only at sustained and growing success as a movement and party."