Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has claimed defections from her party are a “good thing” because the people leaving “don’t believe in conservatism”.
Nigel Farage’s Reform – which claimed to have 11,000 members north of the border – has taken a steady stream of councillors from the Tories in Scotland in recent months, most recently on Thursday when Aberdeenshire representative Lauren Knight made the move.
