video statement on Twitter in which she stated categorically that there was “zero tolerance” towards transphobia in her party.But the meeting’s focus was Joanna Cherry, admired cross-party for her legal challenges during the Brexit crisis, and who, only three years earlier, came within one vote of beating Blackford to his role.
She is also an unrepentant champion of concerns around the erosion of women’s rights and one of Sturgeon’s fiercest internal critics.On Monday, Cherry was sacked from the party’s frontbench during a reshuffle that was press-released as “drawing on new talent”.