Russia’s war on Ukraine does not change Boris Johnson’s unfitness for office - Euan McColm

Until just a couple of weeks ago, few would have bet on the Prime Minister delivering a speech to this year’s Scottish Conservative Party conference.

As the partygate scandal swirled around Boris Johnson, threatening to end his time in 10 Downing Street, Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross was among the first elected members to call for his resignation. Ross submitted a letter, calling for a confidence vote, to the Conservatives’ 1922 committee and his fellow MSPs united behind him. So far as every Tory at Holyrood was concerned, Johnson was not fit for the office he holds.

Perhaps you remember the Prime Minister’s beagle, Jacob Rees-Mogg, going out to fight on his boss’s behalf. Douglas Ross, he drawled, had always been something of a lightweight character.