Will the SNP government lose yet another health minister?

To Scotland, where today the SNP government’s embattled Health Secretary Neil Gray is in the firing line. The Scottish Tories have tabled an amendment – which will be voted on today – calling for the ‘Limogate’ minister to step down after Gray admitted to inadvertently misleading parliament over using taxpayer-funded cars to transport him to sports matches. Dear oh dear…

Gray used chauffeur-driven cars to take him to nine football games between 2022 and 2024, which the Health Secretary claims he attended on ministerial business. Yet his journey to the 2023 Scottish League Cup Final between Aberdeen and Rangers raised eyebrows after Freedom of Information requests revealed that there was ‘no note’ of a meeting summary from the event – despite the nationalist MP claiming in the Holyrood chamber that notes had been taken. So much for transparency, eh?

Tory MSP Stephen Kerr has urged independent advisers to investigate the matter of Gray’s misleading parliament while his party hopes to gain the support of Labour and the Liberal Democrats in today’s vote.