The Scottish National Party has been accused of cynically “playing politics” and stoking “domestic party divisions” while the lives of innocent civilians in the Middle East are on the line.
Tobias Ellwood spoke to Express.co.uk as MPs prepare to vote on whether or not to back a ceasefire in Gaza, after the SNP put forward a motion urging parliamentarians to “join with the international community” and call on Israel and Hamas to drop their weapons.
The motion has no chance of passing as the vast majority of Tory MPs are expected to reject it. In that context, the former Chair of the Defence Select Committee believes that the SNP forcing the vote is nothing more than a calculated attempt to expose internal fragilities within the main parties.
Mr Ellwood told this website that the SNP’s ceasefire amendment is “turning [a] genuine call for action” into a “political argument to cause domestic party divisions” in Britain.
He added: “Yes the SNP [are] just playing politics – this is not the unity and statecraft that the UK should be displaying”.
The Commons vote is expected to take place after 7pm this evening.
