Theresa May came to Scotland today to offer her support to Ruth Davidson. Notionally, the Scottish Tory leader is supposed to support the Prime Minister but in this election, Ruth is a greater asset to the Conservative and Unionist party than Theresa.
Today’s YouGov poll for The Times confirms as much. Mrs May has a net approval rating in Scotland of -17; Ms Davidson’s is +10. Two thirds of those voters who endorsed Labour candidates in 2014 think Davidson is doing a good job and so, remarkably, do one in three voters who supported the SNP two years ago.
The same poll was interesting precisely because there was nothing startling in it. It reported that the Tories are on course to win 29 percent of the vote in Scotland and, assuming there has been no polling malfunction, this is the new normal in Scotland. Anything below 25 percent of the vote for the Tories would now be reckoned a disappointment.
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