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Scottish Conservatives turned on Boris Johnson today as the party hemorrhaged votes in the local elections, saying his Partygate antics had helped it lose seats.
After a dismal night in council elections the party is waiting to find out whether it has slipped below Labour to become the third largest party in Scotland.
The Conservative vote share across Scotland has dropped, with a number of wards seeing a fall of more than 10 per cent when compared to 2017.
Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross said the result was 'very disappointing and challenging'.
Ross - who had called for the PM to resign over breaking lockdown rules, but then gave him his backing over Ukraine - acknowledged that defeated candidates had said Partygate was an issue for voters.
But he added: 'It doesn't look like voters are shifting to other parties, they're staying at home this time. Again we have to wait and see what happens in Scotland.
'General apathy at local council elections is a concern for all the parties but we will not be immune from some of the problems we have seen south of the border with voters deciding this is an election they can sit out.'
Asked about Partygate, his colleague Miles Biggs, the shadow social
