The Scottish Tories can’t continue to rely on SNP failures

The Scottish National party’s implosion brings good news for the Scottish Conservatives. At the Tories’ party conference in Glasgow, delegates had a spring in their step about their party’s rising chances. Poll results show that the Unionist parties are seeing their support gradually increase, while the SNP’s grip on power looks to be weakening, Meanwhile, support for the Greens, though not especially high to begin with, has halved. 

Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross was joined in Glasgow at the weekend by an all-star cast from Westminster, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, secretary of state for Scotland Alister Jack and levelling up secretary Michael Gove. But while it is clear the party has a vision, its presentation was diluted somewhat by an overwhelming focus on SNP failures. 

The Scottish Conservatives are the only political party in Scottish politics that is focused on the ‘real priorities’, said chairman Craig Hoy, citing the SNP’s culture of ‘secrets and lies’, its ‘addiction to division’ and Nicola Sturgeon’s penchant for ‘all talk, no delivery’.