‘Hypocritical’ Tories

Sir,

The rank hypocrisy of the Scottish Tories knows no bounds.

While they are frothing at the mouth that the first minister should resign over allegedly misleading the Scottish Parliament, at the same time Prime Minister Johnson was proven to have deliberately misled the Westminster parliament.

Standing up in the House of Commons, Mr Johnson stated that all Covid-related contracts were ‘on the record’.

This was three days after the High Court ruled the government had acted unlawfully by failing to publish hundreds of such contracts, which somehow seemed to find their way to those with Tory party connections.

Two weeks prior to this, the Health Minister Matt Hancock was found guilty of illegal activity by the High Court,

He refused to resign or even apologise when the extent of illegal awarding of PPE contracts was revealed.

Last year, Tory Home Secretary Priti Patel was found guilty of breaching the ministerial code by being a bully and shouting and swearing at civil servant employees in the Home Office, recently reaching a £340,000 settlement with the former Home Office Permanent Secretary.

Compare and contrast that with north of the border, where the Tory party has demanded the resignation of the First Minister even before the outcome of the enquiries into the handling of the Alex Salmond case by the Scottish Government has been published.

Not a cheep from them demanding an apology, let alone a resignation, for the flagrant abuses by their Westminster colleagues.

What hypocrites.

Alex Orr, Edinburgh.