I wouldn’t normally tend to endorse any of
the candidates for the leadership of the Tory party – they all seem pretty dire
to me. I was, though, struck by
something that ‘the Saj’ said yesterday in his pitch. He argued that he was different, an outsider,
just like Ruth Davidson was as leader of the Scottish Conservatives, and that
under his leadership, his party would seek to emulate her success.
In the last General Election (under Davidson’s
leadership), the Tories in Scotland won 22% of the seats with 29% of the vote;
in the European elections, they won 17% of the seats with 12% of the vote, and
in the last elections to the Scottish parliament, they won 24% of the seats
with 22% of the vote. It strikes me that
many of us could fairly happily live with a Conservative Party led by a man for whom such results are defined as 'success' and whose
ambition is limited to replicating those results across the UK.
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