INVERCLYDE’S longest-serving SNP councillor has resigned from the party.
Innes Nelson will continue as an independent councillor.
He said: “Further to the actions of my fellow SNP Councillors at last Thursday’s Inverclyde Council meeting to remove me from the chair of audit I have tendered my resignation to the Scottish National Party HQ in Edinburgh.
“I would like to thank council leader Stephen McCabe, Councillor David Wilson and employees of Inverclyde Council who have who have supported me during my illness with Lyme Disease.
“I was the longest-serving SNP councillor on Inverclyde Council having been in office for 15 years since a by-election held in 2009 after the death of Councillor Kenny Ferguson.
“I will now sit as an Independent councillor on Inverclyde Council.”
Councillor Nelson represents Inverclyde South West.
His resignation means that Inverclyde’s 22 councillors will be made up of nine Labour, seven SNP, four independent and two Conservative.
At the council meeting the SNP Group put forward Councillor Chris Curley for Audit Convenor but the Labour and Conservative councillors successfully voted in Councillor David Wilson 11:7.
