FORMER Scottish Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill has launched an attack on the sacking of Joanna Cherry from the SNP's frontbench at Westminster amid an angry backlash against the decision.
The East Lothian MP hit out strongly over Cherry's removal from her post as the party's home affairs and justice spokeswoman in the Commons and said the development would damage the independence fight.
"I know how highly rated Joanna Cherry is in UK justice circles as well the party grassroots in Scotland. She remains head and shoulders above most others and I for one stand by her. This is the leadership's call but many of us find this inexplicable and harmful to our cause," he wrote on Twitter this afternoon.