Scottish Tories’ independence Twitter blunder

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross seems to pride himself on his independence from Boris Johnson. The Moray MP quit his ministerial job at the Scotland Office over Dominic Cummings’ trip to Durham and yesterday he told Andrew Marr that ‘of course’ the Prime Minister should go if he broke the ministerial code over the funding of his Downing Street flat redecoration.

But the assistant referee might be getting a little too independent, in all senses of the term. Today he participated in a photo-op with former Tory leader Ruth Davidson, who has been a constant by Ross’s side throughout the campaign. The pair posed with giant ballots in front of billboards with the slogan ‘How to stop indy’ and an exhortation to pro-Union voters to back the Scottish Tories on the ‘peach ballot’ — the party list vote in Scotland’s proportional electoral system.