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Scots Tories: We’re so toxic we drive voters to Labour

The deputy leader of the Scottish Conservatives has admitted his party is so “toxic” that attempts to engage voters end up turning the electorate against them.

Murdo Fraser said efforts to woo voters had backfired and done “more to mobilise the opposition than to increase the Conservative vote”, according to leaked party documents.