The Scottish Tories suffered humiliation after dropping greater than 60 seats within the council elections.
Douglas Ross's occasion confronted a "tough evening" on the poll field after seeing 61 councillors lose their locations in chambers throughout the nation.
They misplaced key seats and noticed their share of the vote drop by double-digits in a lot of wards.
In Moray and Aberdeenshire there was some excellent news with good points in each areas.
Many officers blamed the failure to sort out the price of residing disaster and partygate as the rationale for the shortage of help on the poll field.
Ross, an MP and MSP, stated Boris Johnson cannot ignore the outcomes throughout the nation at the moment.
Chatting with the BBC from the election rely in Moray, Ross stated: "It has been a tough evening and the outcomes coming in at the moment are very disappointing."
He highlighted good points in Moray and Aberdeenshire, however stated: "In too many elements of Scotland, we have misplaced glorious candidates and councillors have not been re-elected as a result of it appears lots of our supporters determined to sit down this one out, to protest and never solid their vote, and we have misplaced out on account of that."
When requested whether or not he believes Johnson ought to lead the Conservatives into the subsequent basic election, Ross stated: "The Prime Minister merely cannot ignore the message that is been despatched from voters not simply right here in Scotland, however throughout the UK.
"The Conservatives misplaced Westminster Council final evening - that is a council that even within the peak Labour years below Tony Blair the occasion held on to - so there's been a really robust message from the general public to the Prime Minister and to the occasion."
Former Scottish Tory chief Baroness Ruth Davidson, talking on Twitter, stated the occasion needed to compete in opposition to a "40 odd yr excessive watermark" set below her management in 2017.
"There's nonetheless outcomes coming in and ScotTories have already breached the 200 mark - for comparability, we went into the 2017 elex with 112," she stated.
"There have been additionally some actual pockets of sunshine, like N Ayrshire the place we added considerably to our group."
She additionally leant her help to Douglas Ross, stressing good points made eventually yr's Holyrood election.
"When it comes to questions of management, I do know what it is prefer to lose seats at my first native election, earlier than coming again stronger," she stated.
"The Scottish occasion wants to drag collectively round (Douglas Ross) management.
"Simply 12 months go he led ScotTories to its greatest ever Holyrood consequence."
To enroll to the Each day Report Politics e-newsletter, click on right here.