The SNP has been branded "totalitarian" by one of its former deputy leaders.
Jim Sillars claimed the Nationalists were now the "most leadership-controlled party in the UK".
He also criticised backbenchers for not speaking out against its leaders, saying there was the "astonishing spectacle" over "many years now of no rebellion against leadership policy and opinion".
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