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Armed with the conference mandate, the leadership then moved to expel the leading 79 Group members.

Alex Salmond, Kenny MacAskill, Stephen Maxwell, and others were expelled ; Roseanna Cunningham was not, on the grounds that she was not a member of the interim committee.

Margo MacDonald was not expelled but resigned from the SNP in protest.

Other members of the 79 Group in party offices were left alone ; when the expelled members appealed against their expulsion, the committee hearing the appeal included 79 Group member Stewart Stevenson.