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Scottish Tory resigns whip branding party ‘Reform-lite’
Scottish Conservative Jamie Greene at the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh, June 23, 2021

A TORY MSP has quit the party he says has pinned its hopes on a “Trump-esque narrative and a Reform-lite agenda.”

Jamie Greene dropped his resignation bombshell this morning, writing to Scottish Tory leader Russell Findlay to tell him the party he joined “simply no longer exists.”

“During the leadership election last year, I warned that we were giving up on the next generation of young Scots,” he wrote.

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