All is not well in the Scottish Tory party. Onetime leadership hopeful Jamie Greene MSP has dramatically quit the party today, announcing his exit in a scathing letter to current leader Russell Findlay. Raging that the group has become ‘Trump-esque in both style and substance’, Greene fumed that the Scottish Conservatives were at risk of being once again labelled the ‘Nasty Party’ by ‘chasing the votes’ of Reform voters. Ouch.
The Scottish politician – who believes he was sacked from the party’s frontbench in 2023 over his support for Nicola Sturgeon’s gender reforms – blasted his party for a rightwards shift as Reform UK continues to gain momentum north of the border. He slammed Findlay’s advisers, warning the group leader that ‘those advising you will lead the party to a collapse in support for a decent centre-right politics in Scotland’. Going on, Greene added:
Chasing the votes of Reform party supporters will never see the Scottish Conservatives in government; there simply aren’t enough fringe right-wing Scottish voters to achieve that.
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