'We are not watching a natural disaster,' she says. Ms El-Nakla says the UK should be 'sending supplies' rather than 'spy planes'. She told the conference that she fears all 2.2 million people in Gaza may be killed, and the territory may no longer exist soon - in a conflict like none she has seen there before. The parents of his wife, Nadia El-Nakla, are currently stuck in the region. The situation is especially prescient as members of party leader Humza Yousaf's family are trapped in the Gaza Strip. Stephen Flynn, the SNP's leader in Westminster, was due to open the party's conference in Aberdeen.īut the party instead opened with an emergency motion on the situation in the Middle East. He told the conference: 'Let’s regroup, renew and give Scotland's people the chance to vote for what they believe in. 'After 13 years of failure – through Brexit, through Boris, through 49 days of Liz Truss – we're now left with the Tory billionaire of last resort - Rishi Sunak.'Īnd he challenged the Labour MPs in Scotland to 'stand up for the people of Scotland' asking if they will do that 'or will they simply do what Sir Keir Starmer tells them to do?'. 'Skint, scunnered and Scottish? Blame the Tories,' he said. He took aim at both Sir Keir and Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.

He said the party's defeat in the Rutherglen and Hamilton West by-election last week was 'humbling', but 'it's how you respond that matters'. The politician jokes that there will be 'no glitter appearing in my hair' like Sir Keir Starmer at the Labour conference, and 'no tin foil hats permitted in the venue' like at the Tory's gathering. This is Stephen Flynn's first time speaking in his current role, after he took control in London when Ian Blackford was ousted. By Tim Baker, political reporter, at SNP conference in Aberdeenįollowing the SNP's emergency motion on the Middle East, the leader of the group's Westminster delegation addressesd the conference hall.

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