Angus MacNeil has refused to stop appearing on the Russian TV station RT

An SNP MP has vowed to continue appearing on a Russian television station despite a clear appeal from his leaders to stay away.

Angus MacNeil, the SNP MP for Na h-Eileanan, said that he would not stop appearing on RT, formerly Russia Today, a channel backed by the Kremlin that has been blamed for spreading pro-Russian propaganda.

Mr MacNeil has appeared on Alex Salmond’s much-criticised RT chat show and made it clear that he would do so again.

After the UK government identified two Russians that it blames for the Salisbury nerve agent poisonings Ian Blackford, the SNP Westminster leader, said that politicians should not broadcast on RT.

He added that the Russian state, of which RT was an instrument, was “demonstrably implicated” in the