Could the Scottish Conservatives’ party conference have been timed any better than bang in the middle of the SNP’s implosion? Mr S can only imagine the glee with which Douglas Ross’s party planned its 2023 Glasgow conference, the country’s ruling party having handed their opponents an entire dossier of material to orchestrate their ousting. And Prime Minister Rishi Sunak even managed to fly up from Westminster to help open the two-day affair.
The PM didn’t disappoint the crowds: Sunak milked the nationalists’ downfall for all the comedic value it was worth. ‘Nicola Sturgeon quit Bute House to take up driving lessons!’ he called in faux bemusement at his 300-something audience. ‘Someone’s got to drive that motorhome, after all,’ he quipped.
But while Mr Sunak enthusiastically lauded the SNP as ‘the party of secrets and lies’, his attitude to the free press this morning left a lot to be desired.
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