N-ice touch as Ruth helps shore up support
IT WAS all smiles for the Tories yesterday as they played it for laughs at the seaside to help drum up support before the council elections on Thursday.
Ruth Davidson enjoyed an ice cream and a joke with Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross on Portobello Promenade in Edinburgh.
And they’ll be hoping they have the competition similarly licked after First Minister Nicola Sturgeon was on the campaign trail there just a day before.
Miss Sturgeon visited a number of shops on the promenade on Sunday, as well as posing with locals and surprising a hen party on the beach.
She was also questioned about the ongoing row over the legal advice the Scottish Government may have received over any second independence referendum.
But Mr Ross, enjoying the walk with the former Scots Tory leader, insisted the voters he had spoken to were more concerned with issues in their own areas than with matters of national politics.
In the Scottish Conservatives’ local election manifesto, Mr Ross has committed his party to introducing business rates-free zones on high streets, cutting the council tax for almost a million households, opposing the SNP’s workplace parking tax and setting up a Pothole Action Fund to improve our roads and make driving safer.
He later wrote on Twitter that it had been ‘a pleasure to have Ruth Davidson join us on the final week of the campaign trail’.