WHAT do the people of Glasgow think of the five remaining Tory leadership candidates?
Well, not a lot, it seems. Nobody we asked was actually able to name Penny Mordaunt or Kemi Badenoch, while just one person knew who Tom Tugendhat was.
Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak enjoyed slightly better name recognition, but that may not be of comfort – because most people just told us how much they disliked them.
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These reactions to the latest Westminster Clown Show, cough, leadership race, show just how separate the people of Scotland feel from those who are running the UK.
A tiny proportion of people get to pick our prime minister once again – and just a reminder, we haven’t voted Tory here since the 50s.
Watch as we asked the people of Scotland’s biggest city to name the leadership contenders based on photographs, then pushed them for their views on the candidate in question.
How many names would you have been able to get right?
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