MURDO FRASER has become the sixth contender in the scramble to lead the Scottish Tories, telling members they had been “let down” by party bosses north and south of the border.

The mid-Scotland and Fife MSP first ran for the leadership within months of becoming an MSP in 2011, and now Mr Fraser has joined the fifth of the Tory Holyrood group in the race to replace ousted leader Douglas Ross.

Launching his bid on X, he said: “This party, our party, has let us all down.

“You, its members, were let down by Boris Johnson over partygate, you were let down by Liz Truss’s mini-budget, you were let down by Rishi Sunak at D-Day.

“And yes, I’m sorry to say, you were let down by Douglas Ross and his team.

“So now, our party must change, and change cannot be continuity in a fancy wrapper — our party needs a leader who will reach every corner of it, change it and hold it together all at the same time.”

Nominations open tomorrow and a new leader is expected to be selected by the end of September.