SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford backs boycott of Alex Salmond's RT show

The SNP’s Westminster leader has urged a boycott of Alex Salmond’s chat show on a Kremlin-funded channel as the former First Minister cast doubt on new evidence that Russia is responsible for the Salisbury nerve agent attack.

Ian Blackford said he would not “encourage” people to go on the RT (Russia Today) programme and attempted to distance the SNP from its most successful leader by describing him as a “private individual.”

The Ross, Skye and Lochaber MP hit out at the Alex Salmond Show as the former First Minister admitted it was “highly likely” that Russia was responsible for the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter, Yulia.

But he cast doubt on intelligence disclosed by...