Sandesh Gulhane
Scottish Conservative MSP for Glasgow; raised leadership challenge question against Russell Findlay after May 2026 elections.
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UK Local Elections 2026- Who is Sandesh Gulhane the Scottish Conservative MSP?
- Sandesh Gulhane is a Scottish Conservative MSP for the Glasgow regional list and a practising GP. He raised leadership questions about Russell Findlay in May 2026 after Reform UK won 17 Holyrood seats.Source: Scottish Parliament
- Did Sandesh Gulhane call for Russell Findlay to resign?
- Gulhane was among MSPs publicly raising leadership questions about Findlay after the May 2026 Holyrood results, but Findlay refused to quit and no formal confidence vote was triggered.Source: The Scotsman
Background
Sandesh Gulhane is a Scottish Conservative MSP representing the Glasgow regional list, and a practising GP who has combined his medical career with his parliamentary role. In May 2026 he was among the Scottish Conservative MSPs publicly raising questions about Russell Findlay's leadership of the Scottish Conservatives following the party's performance in the Holyrood elections, in which Reform UK won 17 seats and squeezed the Scottish Conservative vote.
Gulhane has been a vocal critic of the Scottish Government's NHS record, drawing on his GP experience. His questioning of Findlay's leadership position after May 2026 did not result in a formal confidence vote — Findlay refused to resign — but it illustrated the pressure on Scottish Conservatism from Reform UK's Holyrood breakthrough. Gulhane represents the wing of the Scottish Tory party more concerned with competence on NHS and public services than on constitutional positioning.
