ANDREW Neil has claimed that the SNP refused to let anyone from the party appear on his Times Radio show.
The right-wing broadcaster, the founding chair of GB News, made the claim as he responded to a user on Twitter/X about the launch of the SNP manifesto.
Neil alleged that one SNP politician had agreed to appear on his show – but was blocked by the party.
One user had written on social media: “Hmm, pretty appalling @afneil that the SNP wouldn't put anybody up to come onto your Times Radio show on the day of their manifesto launch.”
Responding, Neil said: “The SNP was quite specific: they did not want to put anyone up for me to interview.
“One of their MPs did agree. But they forced him to pull out.
“I wonder why. Perhaps ‘feart’ (good old Scottish word for frightened).
“The SNP likes London-based interviewers who know very little about Scotland.”
In May, Neil came under fire after sharing a cartoon depicting former SNP leaders Alex Salmond, Nicola Sturgeon, and Humza Yousaf being hanged, with the SNP’s logo acting as the noose.
John Swinney, who at the time was expected to be the SNP’s next leader, was shown putting his head into a fourth noose and saying: “I’m the continuity candidate.”
Neil approvingly called the cartoon “brilliant”, while the SNP’s Kirsten Oswald said it was “horrific”.
She added: “So far beneath the bottom of the barrel. Should never have been published. Needs taken down now.”
Neil interviewed the now-Alba leader Salmond earlier in June and the two clashed on the issue of Scottish independence.
During his appearance on Times Radio, which Neil recently joined to cover the General Election, Salmond was told that “you had your chance” and that independence was “over for the foreseeable future”.
Salmond replied: “Everybody deserves a second chance. Every party and every nation. So I think we’ll get another chance but you have to make it the priority.”
The SNP declined to comment.
