wee Dougie the fat linesman (aka Douglas Ross MP, Leader of the "Scottish" Conservative and Unionist Party) does the chicken run to the new seat of Aberdeenshire North / Moray East, sacking local MP David Duiguid in the process. Duiguid is ill, but wanted to stand again.
The new seat contains the Tory-minded fishing ports of Peterhead and Fraserburgh and wealthy farms. But the brutal interview with STV below shows how badly this will play. Ross' absolute incompetence may well backfire and hand the new seat to the SNP or someone else. Voters there loyal to a fault and although Duiguid was a nonentity nationally, he was well liked and seen as hard working locally, rightly or wrongly.
It's the sacking election. It used to be a major thing if one aakward squad backbencher was dropped, now it seems 20+ have been skittled / barred because the leadership either doesn't like them or they are (as with this ex-MP) an inconvenience.