Blue wave sweeps out four Nationalist MPS

SNP candidates were scalped by the Conservatives in four out of five seats in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.

Tories made dramatic gains in Alex Salmond’s seat of Gordon, West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, Aberdeen South and Banff and Buchan, where SNP’S Eilidh Whiteford had enjoyed a majority of 14,000. Kirsty Blackman was the only SNP candidate to defend her seat, winning Aberdeen North with a reduced majority.

Aberdeenshire West and Kincardine was the third tar- get of the Scottish Conservatives during the campaign, with their candidate Andrew Bowie polling 24,704 votes.

In Banff and Buchan, which includes fishing towns Fraserburgh and Peterhead, Conservative David Duguid smashed the SNP majority of 14, 339.

An estimated 54 per cent of those in the constituency had supported Brexit, with the Conservatives making the seat their fifth target in Scotland.

Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie

chancellor John Mcdonnell