This breached his impartial status. However, Jones was reinstated in his role after Davidson was elected leader. On 11 September 2011, Davidson sacked her election agent and parliamentary assistant Ross McFarlane after a newspaper unearthed camera footage of McFarlane drunkenly trying to burn a European Union flag while someone else off camera made anti-Catholic sectarian remarks in a Glasgow street in November 2010. A series of hustings took place during the campaign, in which the four contestants debated one another. Prime Minister and Conservative Party leader David Cameron congratulated Davidson on her win, saying that he looked "forward to working with her to strengthen the Union and build a better future for Scotland". Outgoing Scottish Conservative leader Annabel Goldie also offered congratulations, pledging "not be a back seat driver" and was "confident that she is more than equal to taking on Alex Salmond." Murdo Fraser conceded defeat, saying he was "disappointed that I was not able to persuade more of our members that my vision for the future is the correct one", but pledged to support Davidson as leader. First Minister and SNP leader Alex Salmond congratulated Davidson, but emphasised "the scale of the task for Ruth Davidson in motivating her party". Scottish Labour leader Iain Gray said that following in Annabel Goldie's footsteps would be a 'big task' for Davidson, and the Scottish Liberal Democrat leader Willie Rennie said: "I look forward to working with her, in her new role, as we strive to hold the SNP government to account." The day after the result, leading Scottish Conservative supporter Paul McBride QC resigned from the party, citing that he 'frequently found himself at odds with the party in recent months', particularly with their policy on anti-sectarianism legislation and said of new party leader Ruth Davidson, "they have a leader who has no policies and little experience apart from having been on television about as many times as I have" and that the Scottish Conservatives "replaced one nice woman with one not so very nice woman". In an interview with the BBC, leading party donor John McGlynn, who had supported Murdo Fraser, was critical of Ruth Davidson, saying that "there isn't a [new, dynamic] team of people behind Ruth". He called her appointment of David Mundell MP as interim party chairman "not new" and went on to say: "I would've thought there'd been more planning in a leadership campaign". McGlynn said that the view amongst other party donors is "mixed", and that he believed Davidson was elected with "interference from the center".