A senior Conservative minister publicly endorsed Murdo Fraser's plan to disband the Scottish Tories yesterday as he suggested the party looked like the "tail end" of an English organisation.
Francis Maude also claimed that a breakaway Scottish party would have a better chance of defeating the SNP’s planned independence referendum.
Mr Maude, a Cabinet Office minister and key ally of David Cameron, has previously indicated he could support such an idea.
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