Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross has U-turned on repeated pledges not to stand for WestminsterVOTERS in this new constituency may be rather puzzled as to why the incumbent MP for the predecessor seat of Moray, the ScottishBut this is not the first time he has turned his back on his home patch.
If he’d wanted to replace Tory candidate Kathleen Robertson, he has demonstrated he would have been more than capable of dreaming up a pretext. And any concerns he had about losing may have been well-founded, because not only was his winning margin from 2019 a very modest 1.1%, but boundary changes have also been significant enough to transform the seat into one that is notionally held by the SNP.
But Moray is also one of the paradoxical locations which are basically anti-independence but where the SNP still have deep roots. Winnie Ewing won the old Moray and Nairn seat twice in the 1970s, and then her daughter-in-law Margaret Ewing gained the replacement Moray seat back from the Tories in 1987. It was subsequently retained by the SNP for 30 consecutive years.
Nothing is certain given that the SNP’s own vote is under pressure, but the most likely outcome would appear to be that Graham Leadbitter will reclaim one of his party’s most cherished former heartlands.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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