Henry Hill: Johnson to spearhead pro-Union strategy with more visits to Scotland

Also: Spotlight on the literal handful of MPs providing Stormont’s entire opposition; and Scottish Tories offer a budget deal to the SNP.

Henry Hill: New decade, old story? Smith’s Stormont deal under fire from Tory MPs and Ulster parties

Also: Scottish Conservative leadership candidates set out how they’ll take the fight to the SNP; Jack says no referendum re-run in Sturgeon’s lifetime.

Henry Hill: Carlaw sets out his stall as the Scottish Tory leadership contest begins

Also: Struggle to succeed Corbyn puts spotlight on Labour divisions over Scotland; and Jack has even more reasons to refuse Sturgeon’s referendum demands.

We need strategic clarity. What poses the greater danger to Britain – Iranian aggression abroad or Sunni extremism here?

Johnson, Macron and Merkel don’t agree on everything, but they share a common concern about ISIS now being allowed the space to revive.

The year in which the British people forced the pro-Remain Ascendancy to “come to heel”

When Lord Kerr whistled, voters turned the Nelsonian equivalent of a deaf ear.  When they whistled, he was dragged helplessly along by the command of a democratic vote.

Brexit. The story of 2019 in a single paragraph.

Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat. Defeat…Total Complete & Utter Victory.

WATCH: Johnson attacks SNP over their Common Fisheries Policy stance

He says they are “committed not just to reversing the will of the people but to handing back control of Scotland’s outstanding marine wealth to Brussels!”

Iain Dale: Downing Street is keeping a beady eye on the BBC

Plus: The landslide that few dared to predict. How I once tried to become Monmouth’s MP. And: Happy Christmas to all my readers

Henry Hill: What the election tells us about the Tory position in Wales and Scotland

The Party actually gained ground in both nations – but the Scots were overtaken by a Nationalist surge, whilst the Welsh were not.

The Politics of And. Securing the Majority. 3) Wanted: a Department for the Union

Leaving the EU will see new opportunities and challenges for the United Kingdom as a whole – and the Party needs to fight back in Scotland.

How Vox Pub foresaw the Tory victory in England, but failed to predict defeat in Scotland

In vino veritas: talking to voters in pubs usually works. We saw how four of these five contests could be expected to play out.

Andy Maciver: Johnson must change the Scottish Conservatives’ policy on a second independence referendum

He will be the Prime Minister who will either lose Scotland, or kill nationalism. There is no longer any in-between option.

WATCH: “Scotland can not be imprisoned within the UK against its will”, Sturgeon tells Johnson

“If Boris Johnson thinks saying no is the end of the matter then he is going to find himself completely and utterly wrong.”

WATCH: Gove – “We were told 2014 was a choice for a generation – we are not going to have an independence referendum in Scotland”

“In this General Election we have just seen what happens when politicians try to overturn a referendum result.”

The result that will finally give the British people the Brexit they voted for

We sometimes thought it wouldn’t happen, but the instruction is unambiguous.  The voters have responded to the Prime Minister’s call to Get Brexit Done.