Pete Wishart says he will not use any 'Tory-free rhetoric' in his election campaign.
The SNP's longest-serving MP has distanced himself from the party's election message.But Pete Wishart branded the message "unhelpful," adding that he would not use any "Tory-free rhetoric" in his campaign.Mr Wishart, who has served as the MP for Perth and North Perthshire since 2001, said he would do "everything possible to ensure that the Tories are kept out of Perth and Kinross-shire" when voters go to the polls.
"I will be trying as much as possible to convince them to vote for me and put the case why Scotland should be an independent country."He said: "Humza Yousaf's divisive rhetoric is an insult to the hundreds of thousands of people who vote Scottish Conservative. "This is them feeling their way towards something," she said. "I'm not sure they've got there just yet".
Mr Yousaf has said that independence will be "page one, line one" of the SNP's election manifesto, but Ms Lloyd said that independence support is "not going to shift at this election" and that the public wanted to know how Holyrood was going to deliver change with their current powers.
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