A Scottish Conservative MP has stepped down from a role in the party amid the ongoing sleaze scandal engulfing Boris Johnson’s government.Andrew Bowie has resigned as a vice-chairman of the Conservatives to focus on his constituency, he said.The MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine has a narrow majority, holding the seat in 2019 by only 843 votes in the face of an SNP surge.
But the move comes as Johnson faces mounting claims of sleaze against his MPs with former Attorney General Geoffrey Cox facing a possible investigation by the Commissioner for Parliamentary Standards over his double-jobbing work as a lawyer.
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