Douglas Ross says that the most important thing for voters is to remove the SNP and prevent another independence referendum.
The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has suggested that Tories should vote Labour in the next election, prompting fury from his party's Westminster HQ.
Douglas Ross said people should"do what's best for the country" and support the candidate most likely to beat the SNP in their constituency - and in many Scottish seats, it is likely to be Labour or even the Lib Dems who are the most serious threat to the Scottish nationalists. Mr Ross said he wants to loosen the SNP's grip on Scotland, adding that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer should also be looking"a bit beyond their own narrow party agenda" in favour of keeping the UK together.
"If parties maybe look beyond their own narrow party agenda and do what's best for the country and for me as Scottish Conservative leader what would be best is if we see this grip that the SNP have on Scotland at the moment is loosened." But a Tory spokesman in Westminster insisted that tactical voting was not the official position south of the border, saying:"This is emphatically not the view of the Conservative Party.
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