The National:

SCOTTISH Tory MP Douglas Ross thought he'd try to score some points for Team Union on Brexit ... and it backfired in more ways than one. 

Guy Verhofstadt, the EU's chief Brexit negotiator, was appearing in front of MPs at the Home Affairs Committee.

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Ross had managed to get Verhofstadt to say (roughly) that the EU wouldn't interfere in the UK's constitutional matters.

And then he thought he had his chance.

The Tory quoted Verhofstadt from 2016: "If Scotland decides to leave the UK to be an independent state and they decide to be part of the EU, I think there is no big obstacle to do that."

Ross asked: "Do you still support that?"

The EU's Brexit co-ordinator made his opinion very clear:

An embarrassing moment for Douglas Ross and his Unionist friends ... but it gets worse.

After Verhofstadt's answer, Ross desperately you'll hear Ross desperately saying: "You don't think that's an obstacle for them to simply rejoin."

For "them" to simply rejoin, Ross? Who's them? Aren't you in Westminster to represent Scotland's interests?

Tories seem to be making more and more slips of the tongue in recent days. Are they worried?