Where do Scottish Tory MPs stand on Boris Johnson's future?
If Mr Johnson's premiership survives the lockdown party scandal, life could become very awkward for Mr Ross.
It is hard to imagine how that could be sustainable. The Scottish Tories would have next to no influence with the UK government and would not be able to endorse their own candidate for PM at the next general election. Not credible. So far the remaining four Scottish Conservatives have yet to go public with their verdicts, although Andrew Bowie, the MP for the marginal West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine seat, seems close to doing so.
The MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk - John Lamont - is presumably doing the same. He ran Jeremy Hunt's leadership campaign in Scotland in 2019 and is now a parliamentary aide to the foreign secretary, Liz Truss.John Lamont has worked both with Mr Johnson's former leadership rival Jeremy Hunt and a potential future one in Liz Truss
The third possibility seems the most likely at the moment but toppling their leader would be a huge step for Tory MPs to take.
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