The Scottish Conservatives aren’t having the best time of it at the moment. In more bad news for the blues, this morning Jeremy Balfour MSP, the party’s social justice spokesperson, has decided to quit over its ‘reactionary politics’. In a heartfelt letter to leader Russell Findlay, the Lothian MSP takes aim at his former party for ‘no longer [having] a positive platform to offer the people of Scotland’ and being uninterested in helping those most in need in society.

Balfour has served in the Scottish parliament for almost a decade and held a number of briefs during that time – including on housing, equalities and welfare – and has had his fair share of controversies over abortion buffer zones and benefits for the terminally-ill. He has also been a long-time campaigner on helping disabled people get into work, having been born with limb disabilities himself. But Balfour no longer believes the Scottish Conservative party is the best vehicle to helping society’s most vulnerable, accusing Findlay of having ‘abandoned the effort’:

The MSP for Lothian is not the first member of the Scottish........

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