On the first afternoon the Government lacked an orator who could make Conservatives feel good about being Conservative.
In the meantime, the Scottish Conservatives are gearing up to go on the offensive.
The First Minister reportedly told mutinous colleagues to quit the party if they weren’t prepared to support his predecessor.
The last thing Anas Sarwar wants as he fights to win back central Scotland is fresh fuel for the Nationalists’ claim his party are red Tories.
Scotland under the Sturgeon is the highest-taxed and worst governed part of the UK. That’s the result of the SNP’s failure to square up to its responsibilities, rather than concentrating on their separatist fantasies.
Wallace is top again – with Cleverly, Badenoch, Braverman, Rees-Mogg and Mordaunt above 50 points. There’s a tentative air about this table, as the panel feels its way with the new regime.
The UK competes as itself too rarely to allow the Corporation’s complacency to let Britain down. Time to bring some Olympic focus.
Has the party secured a base it can build on in a less polarised politics? Or is it merely propped up on borrowed pro-UK votes?
The latest results, news and analysis from Holyrood and Cardiff Bay as they come in.
She has made a point of being ahead of Westminster when it comes to imposing new restrictions. But this only works if the measures are popular.
Plus details of selections in Clwyd South, Delyn, Wrexham, Moray, West Aberdeenshire & Kincardine, and more.
Plus: shortlists for Middlesbrough South and Wakefield; and, new selections and nominations in key target seats across the country.
Our conference this weekend will highlight why in huge swathes of the country – the North East, the Highlands and Islands, almost all of the South of Scotland – it is to us, and not Labour, that voters are turning.