Douglas Ross sharpens his knife as Rishi Sunak throws the election

And yet Douglas Ross did just that as he took up the Tory candidacy for the Aberdeenshire North and Moray East seat earlier this week.

A minor detail of all this is that he will now miss out on a £15,000 redundancy payment which Ross will get if he fails to win the seat.Internally, Tory activists and politicians are said to be furious about the decision – which has been capitalised on by the party’s opponents in theand the Scottish Tory leader squirmed when he was confronted by STV’s Colin Mackay who said he had “sacked him on his sickbed”.

Even the SNP got in on bashing Sunak for what he has now admitted was a “mistake”. If the Scottish National Party can question your British patriotism, you’re in really quite a bad place as a Tory politician.He told me about his career highlight of meeting a member of The Four Tops. But his real excitement was reserved for telling me about a book on the Scottish punk scene in the 70s and 80s.

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