EXCLUSIVE: Flynn is due to give a speech at the SNP's annual St Andrew's awards dinner in Glasgow, where tickets cost £90 per person.
Stephen Flynn will be a star speaker at a glitzy awards bash for SNP members this week despite causing a huge row over double jobbing . The Nationalist leader at Westminster has angered colleagues at Holyrood after announcing his intention to stand as an MSP at the 2026 election - without quitting his current job as an MP. Flynn intends to win the nomination for Aberdeen South despite the constituency already being held by an SNP MSP, Audrey Nicoll.
The SNP Westminster leader said any contest to be party leader would be in the 'dim and distant future” but pointedly refused to rule out wanting to succeed the First Minister. Asked if he is on manoeuvres to secure the leadership. 'So I'm ambitious,” he said. 'I'm seriously ambitious for Aberdeen and for Scotland.
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