TORY leadership hopefuls Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss displayed their usual breath-taking arrogance and shocking ignorance of Scottish politics at the hustings in Perth this week, but many of the next day’s headlines diverted attention away from their many failings to concentrate instead on the bad behaviour of a handful of independence supporters outside the venue.
Their verbal abuse of BBC’s Scotland editor James Cook was a mistake on so many levels that it needs to be called out for the mindless stupidity that encouraged it.
