Douglas Ross would have voted against same sex marriage bill in 2014
EXCLUSIVE: The Scottish Tory leader s comments were made days after the legislation passed when he was a councillor.
13:38, 27 APR 2021
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Scots Tory leader Douglas Ross would have voted against same sex marriage in 2014 if he had been an MSP, it has been revealed.
Ruth Davidson (left) cried tears of joy after the same-sex marriage bill passed, a bill Douglas Ross would have voted against DOUGLAS Ross would have voted against same-sex marriage if he had been in the Scottish Parliament in 2014. At the time, Ross was a councillor in Moray but told a local paper that he would personally have voted against the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Bill. The comments from the now Scottish Tory leader were unearthed in a story on The Northern Scot by the Daily Record. Following the bill s passing in 2014, Ross told The Northern Scot that it was a “momentous achievement”, but added: “We should also recognise the hundreds of thousands of people who oppose this legislation.”
MSPs passed legislation legalising same-sex marriage in Scotland in February 2014. Mr Ross, who was then a Tory councillor, told the Northern Scot newspaper at the time that he would have voted against the bill, warning “we should also recognise the hundreds of thousands of people who oppose this legislation”. During the Channel 4 election debate, host Krishnan Guru-Murthy pointed out to Mr Ross that the legislation being passed made former Scottish Tory leader, Ruth Davidson, “cry with joy that she was so pro-equal marriage”. He added: “Were you against equal marriage in 2014?” Mr Ross said: “I’ve said, in a debate in Moray Council chamber, that there was a passionate engaged debate on both sides and I was balancing both sides of the argument because many constituents had contacted me about it.
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Douglas Ross has previously said he regrets saying he wanted to see tougher enforcement on Gypsy Travellers COMMENTS have been unearthed in which Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross expressed his frustration at supposedly having to “bend over backwards for [an] ethnic minority”. Ross made the comments while serving as a councillor in Moray in 2013, four years before he was elected to represent the constituency at Westminster. After his election in 2017, in which he beat the SNP’s Angus Robertson, Ross gave an interview to Core Politics in which he said he would “like to see tougher enforcement against Gypsy Travellers” if he were prime minister.