Neale Hanvey and Lynn Anderson, who was the SNP’s Equalities Convener, have jumped ship. Salmond, the former first minister and ex SNP leader, shocked the political world last week by announcing he would stand for Holyrood for the Alba Party.He has been engaged in a bitter feud for three years with first minister Nicola Sturgeon over her government’s botched misconduct probe into him.He will lead the party in an attempt to return a “super majority” of pro-independence MSPs.