‘This is a massacre’: former Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson on exit poll projection
Ruth Davidson, the former Scottish Tory leader, has described the exit poll as projecting a “massacre” for her party. But it was not as bad as it might have been, she told Sky News. She said:
So actually 131 – while, there is no dressing it up, this is a massacre – they’ve actually, if this is right, pulled a few back from where they thought they were.
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Lisa O’Carroll
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In Basildon and Billericay, where Richard Holden, the Conservative chair, is…