JACKSON Carlaw’s shock resignation from the Scottish Tories has coincided with Ruth Davidson’s re-emergence into the limelight.
Before you could say the indyref was a once in a generation vote, the newly named peer was drumming up support for Douglas Ross’s leadership campaign.
That struck must onlookers as a bit fishy, especially once it emerged that Michael Gove and Boris Johnson had visited Ross in the week before Carlaw resigned.
This tricky issue was put to Davidson by BBC Scotland’s Martin Geissler.
Fortunately for the for Scottish Tory leader, she gave a totally convincing answer…
“I said that I was happy to help.”
— The Nine (@BBCScotNine) August 4, 2020
Tonight on #TheNine, we speak to former @ScotTories leader @RuthDavidsonMSP about facing @NicolaSturgeon at FMQs again, Jackson Carlaw’s sudden resignation and her recent appointment to the House of Lords. pic.twitter.com/Jut3gApjEM
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Amazingly, SNP MP Pete Wishart wasn’t convinced by “Baroness Porkypie”.
'Baroness Porkypie'...... 'I don't know what else to say'....... https://t.co/PgfgOqm3qT
— Pete Wishart (@PeteWishart) August 4, 2020
She’ll need to do a bit better than this when she fills at FMQs.
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