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MSP Jamie Greene joins Lib Dems after quitting Tories

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MSP Jamie Greene joins Lib Dems after quitting Tories

MSP Jamie Greene joins Lib Dems after quitting Tories

MSP Jamie Greene has defected to the Scottish Liberal Democrats, just a day after dramatically quitting the Tories.

The West Scotland MSP was unveiled as a Lib Dem at the party’s spring conference in Inverness.

He had left the Scottish Conservatives on Thursday, writing a stinging letter to party leader Russell Findlay which accused his former party of having a “Reform-lite agenda”.

Report by Covellm.

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