Russell Findlay criticises SNP ‘woke’ policies at UK Tory conference

Scottish Conservative leader Russell Findlay said the SNP has turned Scotland into a “laboratory for weird and wacky policies”.

In a speech on the main stage at the UK party conference in Manchester, Findlay referred to Scottish thinkers and pioneers before criticising SNP policies, saying “if it’s woke, they want it”.

He said: “Scotland can lay claim to many great thinkers and pioneers. The country of Adam Smith, the father of capitalism. Of David Hume, the great moral philosopher, and the many Scots who helped forge the Great British Empire.

“But under the SNP, Scotland has become a laboratory for weird and wacky policies. For the SNP, no policy can be too harmful, half-baked or unhinged. From rent controls, to a universal basic income, to a four-day working week. If it’s woke, they w