These are tricky times to be a Scottish Conservative. To be fair, that’s not an unusual situation. But 2025 would seem to present a particularly thorny challenge.
There are a good few reasons for this. One can be seen in the relative invisibility of the party over recent months. This is not due to a lack of effort on the part of its new leader Russell Findlay. He is an able parliamentary performer, an energetic campaigner, and makes a robust and consistent argument for “common sense” conservatism, albeit with many of the details yet to be filled in. But that is not enough.
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