Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has said she is “100% confident” in Scottish party leader Russell Findlay, despite three MSP defections this year.

Graham Simpson became the most recent MSP to leave the Scottish Tories, defecting to Reform UK in a shock announcement last week.

Jeremy Balfour announced the week before he would sit for the rest of the session as an independent, while Jamie Greene left for the Lib Dems earlier this year.

There has also been a steady stream of councillors defecting to Reform since the end of last year.

But despite losing almost 10% of the party’s MSP group at Holyrood, Badenoch said she still supports Scottish leader Russell Findlay.

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“Absolutely, I’m 100% confident Russell is the right person,” she told journalists during a visit to Aberdeen on Tuesday

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