The Scottish Westminster leader has threatened to expel MPs who leak information about the party’s woes in a bid to cover up the chaos engulfing Nicola Sturgeon’s party, according to sources. The news comes after it emerged a furious row had erupted between SNP MPs Joanna Cherry and Mhairi Black after she defended a primary school visit by a drag queen who shares sexualised content on social media.

Ms Black joined the performer – known as FlowJob – who read to children as young as four at Glencoats Primary School, Paisley.

A source told the Scottish Daily Mail: “There have been arguments between Joanna and Mhairi.

“Ian said that because information from WhatsApp was being reported in the newspapers, and there were leaks from people in the group, he was not going to have group meetings anymore.

“He has threatened that anyone who speaks to the media about SNP discussions will be expelled and there are bad apples in the party.

“It was really uncomfortable.”

First Minister Ms Sturgeon is also battling to unite her party at loggerheads over the lack of real progress in the Scottish independence campaign, the trial of Alex Salmond and a Scottish government policy to allow people to self-identify as a different gender.

Questions have also been raised over the future of her job as cracks begin to emerge in the party over the best route to take to achieve independence from the UK.

Critics warned Ms Sturgeon could “fall on her sword” as early as summer after the trial of Mr Salmond and growing criticism over her desperate bid for Scottish independence.

It comes after SNP MPs continued to bang the drum for Scottish independence despite a coronavirus pandemic facing the country.

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Philippa Whitford, SNP’s health spokeswoman at Westminster, said an independent Scotland would still “collaborate” with the rest of the UK and argued “being part of Europe is more relevant” to fight the killer COVD-19 disease.

She told The National: “Under independence, Scotland would collaborate with our nearest neighbours in England, Wales and Northern Ireland on public health issues.

“Why would we not collaborate? That doesn’t mean our closest neighbour has to be the boss of us. Equally, we would be keen to collaborate with our EU neighbours on European systems to stop the spread of diseases.

“Being part of Europe is more relevant to this issue and even though we are still in the pandemic early warning response system, Boris Johnson is not allowing the government to remain in the European Centre for Disease Control – which allows for the sharing of data and information across EU states, enabling them to work together.”

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