Peter Clarke (journalist)

Peter Clarke is a right wing journalist formerly the Scottish correspondent of the Economist magazine.

According to the Sunday Herald:

MSPs warned if the party lacks enthusiasm to fight for seats, they will lose ground. One critic said MSPs are seen as having gone native "with their snouts in the trough". Polls suggest they may be falling back on the low position they achieved in 1999. But Peter Clarke, a former adviser to Lord Joseph, claimed plotters want either to shift the party's position so it campaigns for abolition of Holyrood, or to put up candidates on an abolition platform who would refuse to take salaries or attend.