A former Scottish Tory chairman has complained that the "chaos" in Downing Street is “holding back” the party’s prospects and could lose them seats in this year’s council elections.
Peter Duncan said “anxious Scots Tory councillors” were now “contemplating a campaign where they feel like the fall guys for Downing Street incompetence”.
He said the Tories had been hit by a “devastating sequence of disastrous missteps” over the autumn, adding that the formation of a separate Scottish party was now “much more likely”.
Duncan spoke out after former Conservative MSP Adam Tomkins insisted that none of the opposition parties in Scotland are “going to get near power until they break free and divorce themselves from London”.
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