JACKSON Carlaw has insisted he is not embarrassed by Boris Johnson after failing to mention him once by name in a speech to party activists. The Scottish Tory leader mentioned SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon 11 times and Jeremy Corbyn 12 times in his 15-minute address in Edinburgh.
Mr Carlaw later downplayed whether a vote for the Scottish Tories meant a vote for five years of Mr Johnson in Number 10, saying: "Prime Ministers come and go."
He also urged Mr Johnson to agree to be interviewed by the BBC's Andrew Neil.
"I certainly wouldn't be afraid of being interviewed by Andrew Neil," he said.
Research for the Times today found 70 per cent of Scottish voters distrust Mr Johnson.
In his speech, Mr Carlaw played up the prospect of Ms Sturgeon propping up a minority Labour government in return for a second independence referendum in 2020.
Appealing to pro-Union voters of all backgrounds to lend the Scottish Tories their vote, he urged Scotland not to "sleepwalk into disaster over this week to come".
He said: "We must instead act to stop Indyref2, to stop Scotland going back to more division, and to let our country move on".
Referring to Ms Sturgeon's plan to request the power for Indyref2 by Christmas, he concluded: "I urge every Scot who cares deeply about Scotland, everyone who wants our children to have the opportunity to have a decent education, everyone who thinks sick kids should be healed not put at risk, everyone who thinks we should have the chance of a good job to make the best of ourselves, to send the message No to Indyref2.
"With the SNP obsessed and the Labour Party indifferent, the only way to do that is to vote for the Scottish Conservative and Unionist party. For the sake of Scotland, lend us your vote.
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