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Politics
Lucinda Cameron

MSP Jeremy Balfour quits Scottish Conservatives over ‘reactionary politics’

MSP Jeremy Balfour has resigned from the Scottish Conservatives with immediate effect, saying the party has “fallen into the trap of reactionary politics”.

Mr Balfour, an MSP for the Lothian region, will sit as an independent until the Holyrood election next year.

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