The excellent politically independent website Electoral Calculus, whose election predictions have been uncannily accurate for many years, is currently predicting a clean sweep of all 59 Scottish seats for the SNP at the next General Election, meaning Douglas Ross and his five, strangely silent, Tory colleagues’ seats will be lost.
Of course, much can happen over the next few years to change this but both Ross and Davidson know that as long as Boris Johnson is Prime Minister, Conservatism in Scotland is a lost cause, so it’s not surprising they are distancing themselves from the Westminster debacles.
Clearly, Johnson is dead in the water and the leadership challengers are circling but it’s likely his successor will be another Johnson Brexiter clone, whether it be Truss, Raab, Gove or the man who entered politics to protect the super-rich from taxation, Sunak.
Douglas Ross may have contributed to the fall of…
