Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross yesterday snubbed a VJ Day service to work as a linesman at a football match.The MP for Moray was last night accused of insulting fallen World War II heroes after refusing an invitation to the constituency event in Forres where veterans held a two-minute silence at the town’s memorial.Instead, he ran the line as an assistant referee 200 miles away at Kilmarnock’s Rugby Park clash in the Scottish Premiership with St Johnstone – a job that attracts fees of about £445.Labour MSP Neil Findlay said: “This is absolutely extraordinary.“Douglas Ross shows where his true priorities lie, not in paying respects to those who died for our freedom and democracy but lining his pocket running the line at a football.
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