THE Tories will not be wiped out in Scotland at the next General Election, the Prime Minister has said.
Speaking to journalist during a visit to RAF Lossiemouth in Moray, Rishi Sunak was asked whether he was concerned about an electoral wipeout.
“No, I’m not actually,” he said.
“We remain very confident about both what we’re accomplishing and delivering in Scotland and the response that we’re getting from people on the ground.”
It comes after months of polls showing the Conservative Party lagging behind Labour, with Keir Starmer expected to win back the keys to Downing Street if the results are replicated in an election.
Leader of the Scottish Conservatives Douglas Ross is set to give up his Westminster seat at the next election after holding both the role of MP and MSP since the Scottish Parliament elections in 2021.
Scotland Secretary Alister Jack is also set to step down from frontline politics.
Still, Sunak claimed that the Scottish Conservatives were “delivering for people in Scotland”.
He said: “I think that people are responding really well to the focus of Douglas (Ross) and his team here, whether that’s Rachael (Hamilton) on rural issues, whether that’s Liam (Kerr) on education – incredibly important results just came out the other day where you saw Scotland, sadly, letting down its children whereas schools in England are rising up the league tables.
“That’s what the Scottish Conservatives are delivering for people in Scotland, focusing on issues they care about.
“Whether it’s their schools, whether it’s their hospitals, whether it’s the economy.
“We’ve got an SNP Government that’s not focused on all those things and I think that contrast is very clear, and we’re just going to keep hammering home that message every day until the next election.”
During a visit to Scotland earlier this year Sunak failed to name four members of the Scottish Tory front bench in Holyrood after being asked to do so by the Scottish Sun.
