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When late night sittings were more common, it would be packed with increasingly inebriated MPs and party whips, trying to keep them in line.

The SNP currently have 62 MSPs - excluding John Mason, who has been stripped of the party whip.

The SNP also withdrew the party whip from MSP John Mason over social media posts in which he questioned whether Israel was committing genocide in Gaza.

SNP MSP John Mason has been stripped of the party whip after "completely unacceptable" social media posts about the conflict in Gaza.

Mr Holmes, who was elected at the previous general election in 2019, has also been made a shadow minister at the department, alongside frontbench roles at the Northern Ireland Office and as a party whip.