The leader of the Scottish Conservatives has launched a stinging tirade against a former Cabinet Minister who claimed David Cameron said he “doesn’t care” about Scotland.
Ruth Davidson said she “wouldn’t trust David Laws as far as I could throw him,” after the ex-Liberal Democrat MP reported the alleged comments in his new book, Coalition.
Mr Laws, a former Chief Secretary to the Treasury who was forced to resign in an expenses scandal after just 17 days in office, claimed the comments came in a conversation between Mr Cameron and former Liberal Democrat boss Nick Clegg just days after Scotland voted No.
The SNP said the account “lays bare the Tories’ contempt for Scotland” but a senior Downing Street source rubbished the claims.
Ms Davidson suggested Mr Laws was just “trying to make money” out of the controversial account of government.
She said: “He lasted precisely 17 days in the cabinet before he was thrown out for fiddling his expenses.
“He’s now trying to make money out of a book by saying things that were in conversations where even he admits he wasn’t in the room.
“I know David Cameron – I know the shift that he put in during the referendum campaign.”
Ms Davidson added: “I wouldn’t trust David Laws to come back with the correct change from the shop.”
A Scottish Liberal Democrat spokeswoman highlighted the Prime Minister’s failure to join the Holyrood trail.
She said: “Ruth Davidson is the broken record of the campaign – she is not a unionist, she is a divisionist with no plan for Scotland. David’s Cameron’s conspicuous absence during this campaign says it all.”