Truth of Ruth?

Ruth Davidson’s ownership of “her 13 MPS” as a separate party at Westminster is fanciful as their primary loyalty will be to the UK Tory whips and they will not be able to vote against any meaningful Tory policy if it might cause another unwanted general election (Scotsman, 13 June).

Ruth Davidson has now changed her position on Brexit several times and is just another opportunist politician rather than “strong and stable”. Having campaigned against Brexit, after the EU referendum she supported Nicola Sturgeon in calls for Scotland to remain in the single market and at this time even Kezia Dudgale was open to a second independence referendum.

However, Ruth Davidson soon fell in line with the UK Tory hard Brexit rhetoric. Now she says she wants a soft Brexit, perhaps like Norway as a member of Efta, but when Nicola Sturgeon offered to shelve a second independence referendum in exchange for a soft Brexit, this was firmly rejected by Theresa May with- out any reproach from Ruth Davidson, who called the idea fanciful.

In any event, the governments of all four nations must now be part of the UK Brexit negotiations in order to protect their distinctive interests.

Like the tories, labour is still very divided over Brexit and I doubt those radical young voters who flocked to Jeremy Corbyn in the last week of the general election campaign knew Corbyn and John Mcdonnell were still in favour of Brexit or that Labour’s manifesto supported the renewal of Trident nuclear weapons.

MARY THOMAS Watson Crescent, Edinburgh