BORIS Johnson will today make a “campaign” visit to Scotland, amid fears his party’s MPs would be almost wiped out in a snap election.

His trip to a farm in Aberdeenshire comes just over a week after Ruth Davidson quit as Scottish Tory leader and days after an opinion poll suggested the Conservatives would lose ten of their 13 seats in Scotland in a Westminster vote.

It also comes at the end of a bad week for the Prime Minister following a series of defeats in the Commons over his Brexit strategy and a party backlash over the “purging of 21 MPs”.

They including former Chancellors Ken Clarke and Philip Hammond and veteran Tory MP Sir Nicholas Soames after they backed a cross party bill to require Johnson to seek in a bid to stop No Deal.

Ahead of his visit Johnson said yesterday he would “rather be dead in a ditch” than ask the EU for a Brexit extension.

The Prime Minister said a further delay to the 31 October deadline was “pointless”, and there is no way he would do it.

Johnson made the extraordinary comment during a bizarre appearance at a police training centre in Wakefield, west Yorkshire.

At one point he tried and failed to recite a police caution, before a female officer standing behind him appeared to pass out because she had been left standing for so long waiting for his heavily-delayed speech.

He also directly addressed the shock resignation of minister and MP Jo Johnson, his younger brother, who resigned over the pair’s Brexit differences, saying: “Jo doesn’t agree with me about the European Union because it’s an issue that divides divides families and divides everybody.”

Asked whether he would rule out requesting a further Brexit delay, Johnson said: “Yes. I’d rather be dead in a ditch. It’s costs a billion a month, it achieves absolutely nothing, what would be the point of a further delay? It would be absolutely pointless.”

The PM also repeated his calls for a General Election, just 24 hours after MPs rejected his initial attempts to stage a snap poll on 15 October.

MPs will be made to vote again on the same demand on Monday night, and Johnson said it was wrong for Labour to block it.

He said: “I want to give the country a choice. We either go forward with my plan to get a deal, take the country out on 31 October, which we can, or else somebody should be allowed to see if they can keep us in after 31 October.

“If people really think that this country should stay in the European Union after 31 October, then that really should be something for the people of this country to decide.”

Meanwhile, Johnson was accused of “an abuse of power” by Labour MP Yvette Cooper for making police officers wait outside for an hour so they could flank him while he was making his speech.

Referring to a video of the police officer appearing to faint behind the PM, the MP for Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford tweeted: “This is an abuse of power by Boris Johnson, making so many police stop their training and work to be part of his political stunt.

“They have a job to do here in West Yorks, and they train and work hard for the whole community – completely unacceptable to use them in this way.”

Meanwhile, former Tory prime minister John Major has demanded the “threats and abuse” from Cabinet Ministers and Downing St advisers stop and urged Johnson to sack his chief adviser, Dominic Cummings, branding him a “political anarchist”.

In an excoriating attack on the UK Government, Major denounced the Cabinet as a “faction of a faction,” and suggested it had no moral authority to change the direction of the whole of the United Kingdom.