Scottish Tories leadership hopeful revives talk of Westminster split. Murdo Fraser, one of the frontrunners to replace Douglas Ross, has argued for a separate centre-right party north of the border.

by bottish

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  2. I’ve always thought this was a good idea. He came mighty close in 2011, we shall see where the appetite in the party is now.

  3. That’s the guy that could become Tory Leader in Scotland? Surely there has to be someone else better than him.

  4. His twitter feed alone will keep the press in the black for a good year or so.

  7. Yeah, the conservatives dissolving the Unionist party was always a bad idea. Just because the Church of Scotland stopped being a relevant force in Scottish politics, right wing Scots got used to voting for a party with a uniquely Scottish character with less of a focus on free markets.
    There’s a reason the SNP didn’t start gaining ground until then

  8. I don’t think any of the ‘UK’ parties would be able to survive up here without receiving funding from down south given their low membership.

  9. The Scottish branch of the Tories will lose all their funding if they divisively break up the Conservative Party; they have more in common with their bosses than divides them; they will lose jobs as their UK Conservative funding disappears; they will be isolated and weaker without the strong and stable leadership of May, Johnson, Sunak, and the other one. And they have no plan for making their own decisions or self-funding. Clearly only Putin will benefit by breaking up the Conservatives.

    The Tories in Scotland benefit from having the best of both worlds: they’re able to make the tea for their superiors and thus have access to the CCHQ kitchens but can also pretend to gullible voters that they have a modicum of autonomy.

  10. Tory minister arguing for Scottish independence (in the Tory party)?

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