Scottish Conservative MSP Maurice Golden has said his party has moved so far from its values that he will not stand for it again.

In a candid interview with the Holyrood Sources podcast , the North East Scotland MSP — who has been a Conservative member for 25 years and has stood in seven elections — said the party was now “fundamentally different” from the one he joined and from the platform it offered voters as recently as 2021.

He also said he other parties — including the SNP — had approached him about defecting.

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Mr Golden, who has already announced he will step down at the next election, said:

“I just think we have moved so far away, in terms of the Conservative Party, from where I started. And, you know, it is like a different era from 2021, you know, kind of moving

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