SNP show hits Westminster - with some 'totally unacceptable' clapping

Conservative MP, Simon Burns, said: 'You don't clap in the chamber, you say 'hear hear''

Ian Johnston
Thursday 14 May 2015 16:28 BST
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Simon Burns, Conservative MP for Chelmsford
Simon Burns, Conservative MP for Chelmsford

Scottish National Party (SNP) MPs have been ruffling feathers in Westminster on only their first day in Parliament – with some “totally unacceptable” clapping.

Carol Monaghan, the SNP’s newly elected member for Glasgow North West, tweeted that during their induction process the “Tory MP for Chelmsford tells us it is poor etiquette to clap”. What followed was “rapturous applause from the 56” SNP MPs, she said.

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