SCOTTISH Conservatives have begun preparing the ground for a leadership contest, with potential candidates arguing for and against the party…
SCOTTISH Conservatives have begun preparing the ground for a leadership contest, with potential candidates arguing for and against the party lurching to the right.had been “pussyfooting around the leftist consensus” and should take an aggressive position against “shibboleths” like taxpayer-funded university fees which “are unworkable in the long term”.
“There is no need to bounce the party into a quick coronation in time for the start of the new parliamentary session at “I’ll say this frankly; the party must do this properly to ensure the widest possible debate, lest we risk political extinction. Fraser stood more than a decade ago with the key pledge to separate the Scottish Tories from the party in the rest of the UK, but lost out to the now Baroness Davidson.We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country.
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