Russell Findlay has outlined the Scottish Conservatives’ blueprint for a common-sense future for the country.
“What I’m proposing is a blueprint for a common-sense future for Scotland.
“It starts with a parliament focused on better value for taxpayers. Putting a stop to wasteful spending is top of our agenda. We need to urgently streamline bloated government.
“We would scrap the SNP’s 2045 net zero target. It is unaffordable and unachievable. We would replace the SNP’s Just Transition Fund in favour of an Affordable Transition Fund.
“We would take £100 off every household energy bill in Scotland from the proceeds of leasing our waters to wind farms.
“A 2019 study looked at how many medical graduates in Scotland stayed to work in our NHS. For overseas students it was 34 per cent, for Scottish students it was 80 per cent.
“Yet there is still no target for Scottish medical students at Scottish universities. We would put that right.”
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Friends… My first conference as leader of the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party.
There is one thing in particular that I want to say to you today – and that is ‘thank you’.
Thanks to all of you – our members, activists and supporters.
Thanks to my colleagues at Holyrood, Westminster and in councils across Scotland.
Thank you for all the incredible work you do for our party.
Friends, we’re here at the home of Scottish rugby.
People usually come here to be entertained by Finn Russell.
Well, today you’re stuck with Russell Findlay.
Murrayfield has seen big wins, spirited comebacks and painful defeats that we want to forget.
Which is fitting.
Because our party has suffered some hard knocks in recent times.
But we’ve also scored some solid victories.
We put independence in the sin bin.
We drop-kicked Humza Yousaf out of office.
We stopped Nicola Sturgeon converting her gender bill into law.
And we’ve watched Labour try government – but Sir Keir Starmer keeps dropping the ball.
But there’s a serious point in my rugby puns.
The rapid rise and fall in political fortunes at home and abroad shows that nothing can be taken for granted.
Fortunes change fast.
No victory is permanent, and no defeat is final.
Pundits want to write off our party.
But I’m an optimist. I’m not prepared to accept doom and gloom.
Where we are today is not necessarily where we will be tomorrow.
By working hard, sticking to our values, and holding our nerve, we can and will turn things around.
Our party has upset the odds before.
Going into the 2021 Holyrood election, Nicola Sturgeon was on TV every single day talking about Covid.
Everyone predicted the SNP would win a majority. But we stopped them.
For the 2026 election, John Swinney certainly won’t have his own TV show.
I know that next year will be difficult.
We have a mammoth task to win back public trust.
Even earning the right to be heard will take a huge and collective commitment.
It won’t happen overnight.
But we must have confidence in the enduring appeal of our core values, the strength of what we stand for.
We’re going up against a nationalist party that is wrecking Scotland and a socialist party that is wrecking Britain.
The public are crying out for change.
Our belief in a common-sense future for Scotland can win people over.
We can get our party back on the pitch.
I’m going to share with you my aim for the 2026 election.
My plan is simple.
Put forward a common-sense vision for Scotland’s future.
We will aim to take on and defeat the SNP in more constituencies.
Not just hold onto what we have but win more.
Yes, this is optimistic if you look at the opinion polls, but it’s also realistic if you speak to people.
We can return constituency MSPs in each of the seats we won last time.
In Eastwood, Jackson Carlaw has done it before, and he’ll do it again.
Rachael Hamilton, Alexander Burnett and Fin Carson have all beaten the SNP twice already.
This Tory trio can surely secure a hat trick of hat tricks.
And Craig Hoy can continue Oliver Mundell’s winning streak in Dumfriesshire
But conference we can aim higher and next year, we will.
In 2021, we came close to beating the Nationalists in several Holyrood seats.
Take Ayr, where we were less than 200 votes behind.
And in last year’s difficult General Election we proved what we can do.
The victory of Harriet Cross in the North East shows what’s possible.
And in Moray, Kathleen Robertson came so close to victory.
Then there’s Perthshire where the SNP will do everything to protect John Swinney.
But those seats can be in play for us.
Wouldn’t that be some prize… Swinney paying the price for his abysmal record?
He has been at the centre of every single SNP scandal.
From the corrupt CalMac ferry contract to the SQA crisis that failed Scottish pupils.
From deleting Covid messages, the Salmond inquiry cover-up and his lack of integrity over the Edinburgh trams scandal.
Honest John’s fingerprints are on everything.
John Swinney admits that independence will be back on the table.
The man is a fanatic.
Already he’s saying he wants to give people the “option of independence”.
That means another referendum.
Well, I think we should give it to him.
No — not another divisive and costly vote on breaking up the United Kingdom.
No chance. We did that. We said no.
Instead, let’s make the Holyrood election a referendum on the SNP’s record.
A binary choice between the change that Scotland so urgently needs or more of the same from John Swinney.
By making the election a choice:
Between a common-sense Conservative future or the divisive nonsense of the SNP.
But our message can’t only be about our opponents; it must be about us.
It must be about what we can deliver.
Our ambition.
Our ideas.
We can’t just tell people that we’re changing.
We have to show it by setting out credible policies to improve people’s everyday lives.
We must demonstrate how we’d bring down bills, deliver faster GP appointments, fix the roads, raise school standards and ensure better value for taxpayers.
And we need to be honest with ourselves and the public.
Being open about the mistakes we made while in government.
Telling the truth about where we went wrong.
And committing to restore the fundamental principles of our party.
Standing up, once again, for the values that we all hold dear such as respecting the rule of law and trusting people to make the best decisions for themselves and their families.
We didn’t do that often enough over the last decade.
We lost our way.
We drifted from our essential purpose as a responsible centre-right party.
When politicians get it wrong, they should say so.
So, I will.
In government, taxes rose too high, immigration was not brought under control and we stopped focusing on improving people’s lives.
I’m going to change that.
I’ll always be honest when we get it wrong because that’s who I am.
I’m not a career politician.
I spent decades as a journalist, often investigating organised crime.
I told it straight.
Stood up for ordinary people.
Fought for justice.
Challenged the powerful.
I’ve demonstrated my resolve.
When I say I’ll do something, I do it.
When people rely on me, I keep my word.
When I commit to helping, I give it my all.
That’s the opposite of what you get from John Swinney.
Dishonesty, deceit, and cover-up come naturally.
He speaks the language of spin which bends the truth beyond recognition.
In my 30 outings at FMQs, I’ve put 120 questions to him.
I’ve yet to get a straight answer.
It is said the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.
Well the problem with nationalism is that you eventually run out of other people to blame.
For John Swinney, it’s always someone else’s fault.
SNP whingeing doesn’t cut it anymore.
The people of Scotland know who couldn’t build two ferries.
They know who let drug deaths become the worst in Europe.
They know who let male rapists into women’s prisons.
They know exactly who is to blame.
And they can see that John Swinney’s sleekit SNP will never accept any responsibility or accountability.
We Conservatives are different.
We hold our hands up to our mistakes and commit to learn from them.
With refreshing honesty, Kemi Badenoch has been just as open.
That’s a sign of her character.
We’re working closely to renew our party and reconnect with those who have lost trust in us.
I get it.
We both get it.
We knew the scale of the challenges when we were elected a few weeks apart last autumn.
We’re working around the clock to change.
At a UK level, Kemi has launched a Policy Renewal Programme, the biggest in a generation.
In Scotland, we have established the National Engagement Forum and are enacting the Carlaw Commission’s recommendations.
We’ve also got a fantastic new chairman in Alasdair Locke and a new treasurer, Malcolm Offord.
They understand business far better than any other party at Holyrood.
Kemi and I are delivering on the promises we made to you, our members, activists and supporters.
But we know that our party is at its best when it looks to what’s happening out there – not when it turns inward.
We can never forget that we exist to represent those who share our values.
We’re not a debating society.
We’re public servants.
We’re representatives of the people.
Too many MSPs in other parties fail to realise this.
Some have become detached from the real world.
They would rather be seen as nice people floating around Holyrood than be strong voices for their communities.
Well, I’d rather be awkward and unpopular with the chattering classes.
Because the gulf between the Scottish Parliament and the real world is growing.
Voters say politicians are all the same.
In it for themselves — liars and grifters who don’t keep their word.
I heard exactly this on a doorstep recently.
It saddens me but motivates me because I know that it’s not always true.
I’m not a careerist like John Swinney who’s spent a quarter of a century at Holyrood.
I’m not like MP’s son Anas Sarwar, destined for a political career.
These Holyrood establishment stooges are not capable of delivering change.
It’s too difficult for them.
The status quo actually suits left-wing SNP and Labour.
It protects their shared views on so many fundamental issues – tax, schools, gender, free speech and more
The Scottish Parliament is a block on progress for Scotland.
It was meant to bring power closer to the people, but it is failing.
It’s a strange place where wearing the right lanyards is considered to be very important.
When we call out the odd obsessions of the left-wing parties (SNP and Labour) they accuse us of stoking a “culture war”.
Yes, we Conservative often end up fighting so-called culture wars.
But these wars were started by the Left.
We didn’t impose the madness of gender self-ID.
We didn’t allow the spiralling cost of state benefits, which will soon top £9 billion.
We didn’t bring in a Hate Crime law that stifles free speech.
We were duty bound to fight the SNP and Labour on these and more.
The Scottish Parliament has lost the plot and needs dragged back to reality.
Only our party will deliver the change that Scotland needs by saying what needs to be said.
Only we will focus on the concerns, hopes and needs of mainstream Scotland.
We reject fringe issues.
We’re the only party with a sensible plan to shake up Scottish politics.
Reform pretend they can do it.
But all they’ll achieve is another five years of SNP government.
As we saw at the General Election, and as every poll shows, Reform increases the chance of the SNP winning.
They seem content with that.
Maybe it’s because they’ve got pro-independence candidates to keep happy.
Or maybe it’s because Nigel Farage says he’s not worried about the SNP getting another five-year term.
Well we are worried about the SNP, Nigel, because we live here.
But we can’t spend our time focusing on Reform because it’s what we do that matters most.
We’ll only win back public trust by demonstrating that we have a plan to take Scotland forward.
Let me share with you some of the fresh new ideas that our party will take into the 2026 election and beyond.
These policies are rooted in what truly matters to people across Scotland who work hard and do the right thing.
Everything I propose is designed to tackle the challenges in our country:
To boost the economy and revive public services.
To give people greater control over their own lives.
To build a stronger Scotland for future generations.
A Labour First Minister once said that government should “do less, better”.
I half agree — it can certainly do much better.
But Parliament can also do more – although only where it makes a material difference.
Parliament should give people and business the means to succeed.
Politicians should then get out of their way, not in their way.
Scots want to keep more cash in their pockets.
They want a government that spends their taxes wisely.
They want a government that provides help when they become unwell and educates their children to allow them to thrive.
What I’m proposing today is a blueprint for a common-sense future for Scotland.
It starts with a parliament focused on better value for taxpayers.
That’s a demand, not a request, of the Scottish public.
A decade of paying more for declining public services has broken trust.
Putting a stop to wasteful spending is top of our agenda.
We need to urgently streamline bloated government.
Improving services means treating people’s money with respect.
This can unleash talent.
But – truth be told – SNP and Labour politicians are too timid to even try.
They tip-toe around issues for fear of upsetting trade unions and other vested interests.
So, they bury their heads in the sand and hope for the best.
Well, we are different.
Today I can announce that our party would introduce a Taxpayer Savings Act to get the books in order and deliver better value.
This proposal would save £650 million by cutting red tape, getting a grip on spending, and harnessing business expertise.
We would then use that money to bring down people’s taxes.
By doing that, we would start to restore trust.
We would shut down quangos that don’t deliver value.
We’d tackle the SNP’s culture of cronyism through strict new rules on public appointments.
No more jobs for the boys.
And we would reduce the number of ministers and advisors.
We would introduce a Scottish Agency of Value and Efficiency – run by business leaders.
People in the real world who know how to get things done.
They would be tasked with wielding a claymore on waste.
We would introduce an Accountability and Transparency Index.
This would shine a light on every organisation that receives public money.
And would begin to dismantle the SNP’s toxic era of secrecy.
We would bring the core civil service under control by reducing staff levels to where they were 10 years ago.
And then demand that they focus on the issues that people care about.
The size of the SNP state is absurd.
There are more of the most senior grade of executives in public sector Scotland than there are paramedics.
I know which ones we need more of.
The only get-rich-quick scheme in Scotland is snaring a first-class ticket on the SNP gravy train… or maybe it’s a camper van.
Nice work if you can get it.
The SNP appear to be buying an obedient client state.
But where’s the benefit to workers and businesses who fund this through their sky-high taxes?
We would review every one of these public sector jobs while enforcing much stricter rules on pay rises.
Here’s another thing we would tackle.
We would reverse SNP ministers’ decision to hand themselves a £20,000 pay rise.
No more rewarding failure.
By doing all that, we can change Scotland.
Instead of paying more for less, it would be the opposite.
People would pay less and get more.
We would reverse the rot.
And we would do it with a sense of purpose.
The great reward would be lower bills for families across Scotland.
As the highest-taxed part of the United Kingdom, this is vital.
Because I tell you what, I trust the Scottish people to spend their money more wisely than I trust any SNP politician.
These chancers have already squandered far too much.
None more so than John Swinney.
When he was SNP leader the first time around, he campaigned to raise income tax.
“A penny for Scotland”, he called it.
Since then, he’s not just wasted a few pennies.
He has wasted untold sums of public money.
Hundreds of millions of pounds. In fact, billions.
If John Swinney wins next year, bills will go up again.
It will be more of the same.
Every vote for the SNP will be a vote for higher taxes.
The same goes for Anas Sarwar’s Labour.
And Nigel Farage has come up with fantastical spending plans that would make Jeremy Corbyn blush.
But our party is different.
We know that tax cuts bring an immediate benefit to household finances.
But they also fuel economic growth.
They encourage aspiration and help to create more jobs.
This in turn raises more in tax revenues.
So we all benefit from lower and fairer taxes.
That’s why in next year’s election, I guarantee that we will stand on a manifesto with funded tax cuts.
We might be the only party to do so at Holyrood.
The rest of them think they have the right to always pick people’s pockets.
That said, unleashing Scotland’s potential will need more than just tax cuts.
My colleagues Douglas Lumsden, Andrew Bowie and Malcolm Offord are working hard to reduce energy costs.
They know, as you know, that a blind rush towards net zero cannot come at any price.
The only just transition is an affordable transition – one that protects North Sea jobs and cuts energy bills for families and businesses.
So, in a paper we publish today, we have set out a range of common-sense proposals.
We would scrap the SNP’s 2045 net zero target. It is unaffordable and unachievable.
We would replace the SNP’s Just Transition Fund in favour of an Affordable Transition Fund.
So instead of spending this money on SNP eco projects, we would use it to protect oil and gas workers’ livelihoods.
We would take £100 off every household energy bill in Scotland from the proceeds of leasing our waters to wind farms.
We will also give residents new legal powers to oppose mega-pylons.
Such decisions should be made by people who have to, quite literally, live with the consequences.
In the net zero debate, nothing is more ridiculous than the SNP’s opposition to nuclear energy.
Green and clean nuclear power is reliable and would drive down bills.
Yet the SNP will sacrifice Scotland’s economy because they’re in the grip of an ideology rooted in ignorance.
SNP politicians equate nuclear power with the nuclear deterrent – which they also foolishly oppose.
We back new nuclear.
We are the only party being honest about our energy security and the cost of net zero.
Even more urgent is the need to fix our public services.
Everywhere you look, Scotland is worse off than it was 18 years ago.
It’s depressing.
Potholes scar the roads.
Bins overflow and the streets are filthy.
The smell of drugs hangs heavy in the air.
Shops are shuttered.
Street gangs cause fear and alarm.
Organised crime gangs get away with killing people with their drugs.
Rents are sky high.
Jobs are scarce.
Businesses fight hard to stay afloat.
Our schools, once a source of national pride, are in a miserable spiral of downward decline.
Classroom discipline has collapsed, putting pupils and teachers at risk.
SNP stagnation is acutely felt in the NHS.
Doctors and nurses run ragged.
A&E departments overwhelmed.
The ambulance service under immense strain.
Patients left in lingering agony.
The problems often begin at GP surgeries.
When people can’t see a GP, health concerns are neglected, and treatments delayed.
This causes worse outcomes for patients – and greater cost to taxpayers.
The NHS doesn’t need endless immigration, which is the SNP’s thinking.
I believe the solutions can be found here in Scotland.
A 2019 study looked at how many medical graduates in Scotland stayed to work in our NHS.
For overseas students it was 34 per cent.
For Scottish students it was 80 per cent.
It’s therefore no surprise that the study recommended increasing the number of Scottish students.
More places for Scottish students equals more NHS doctors in Scotland.
So guess how many medical students at Scottish universities are from Scotland?
Just more than 50 per cent.
And who do you think did this study?
It wasn’t the Scottish Conservatives or a right-wing think tank.
No, it was the SNP government.
So John Swinney knew this six years ago.
Yet there is still no target for Scottish medical students at Scottish universities.
There hasn’t been a target since 2019, when that study was published.
We would put that right.
The SNP knew the problem. They knew the solution.
But they have deliberately failed to train more Scottish students at Scottish universities to work in Scotland’s NHS.
I repeat, this was deliberate.
They keep training doctors who they know will leave Scotland.
The way to deliver more doctors is simple common sense.
We need more Scottish students training to join Scotland’s NHS.
Educating more doctors would be costly in the short-term but save a fortune in the long run.
We need more Conservative common sense in the classroom too.
The left-wing grip on our education system must be smashed.
It is to the SNP’s shame that 1 in 4 of 11-year-olds in Scotland cannot read, write, or count properly.
Far too many children are being written off.
1 in 7 leave school without a qualification.
The culture at the top of Scottish education is self-serving.
The people who fail our children are protected by SNP politicians who fail our country.
The focus has shifted away from educational excellence.
Classroom discipline has also collapsed.
All the while, woke ideas are pushed at the expense of teaching vital knowledge.
Our schooling used to be respected worldwide.
Now it’s just average.
But it can be turned around.
We have excellent teachers who deserve the freedom to teach.
At Berwickshire High School, the then head-teacher Bruce Robertson achieved great things.
I had the pleasure of meeting him to hear about his work.
Like many modest people, he doesn’t sing his own praises.
Well I’m happy to do so.
Mr Robertson made use of exclusions for bad behaviour.
But he didn’t do it by asking. This is what he said recently:
“I worried that if I had asked for permission for that to happen, I would have been told no, and then if I’d been told no, I obviously couldn’t have done it.”
Is that not extraordinary?
He would have been blocked from doing what works.
Mr Robertson took a similarly bold approach with the curriculum.
Instead of following the SNP’s version, heavy with guidance, he amended it to his pupils’ needs.
His version was knowledge-based and skills-orientated.
Exam pass rates rose dramatically.
Mr Robertson says: “We need to strip the whole thing back massively. Most of the documentation is not helpful. It’s bureaucracy for the sake of bureaucracy. That is not helping anyone.”
I think the SNP should listen to Mr Robertson. But will they?
This pioneering teacher has proved what we’ve been saying for years.
Less bureaucracy and more knowledge is the way forward.
That’s the change we would bring to Scotland’s schools.
A curriculum that would allow pupils to learn and to thrive.
And teachers who are free to teach – and instil discipline.
Because violence in schools has reached horrific levels.
I’ve seen sickening videos of boys and girls being set upon by packs of thugs.
I’ve spoken with parents whose children are too scared to return to school.
In most cases, SNP state agencies — in education and justice — actually support those who commit these violent acts… while the victims are abandoned.
The SNP, Labour and other Holyrood parties think that violent and disruptive pupils should be pandered to.
They’re told that it’s not their fault.
And that’s because so-called progressive politicians regard the notion of personal responsibility as old fashioned.
This is naïve.
It does not help disruptive pupils, nor those who want to learn in peace and safety.
We must now take a firmer approach.
Exclusions are not cruel, but sometimes necessary.
They allow bad behaviour to be isolated, challenged and fixed.
Everyone else is given peace to learn.
We must also do better for those who turn their back on school and disappear from the system.
As one of Scotland’s most successful businessmen, Jim McColl is passionate about giving young people the best chance in life.
Like Mr Robertson, he knows what he’s talking about.
He put his money where his mouth is, having set up a pioneering junior college in Glasgow.
This gave young people who shunned school the opportunity to learn practical skills, with a solid grounding in numeracy and literacy.
It is tragic that Mr McColl’s successful college was shut down.
Killed off by the SNP’s education blob.
Jim McColl knows there are different routes for young people to gain skills and get on in life.
I mean, look at me…
Left school with three Highers and went on to do a two-year HND at what was then Napier Polytechnic.
And well, here I am. I’ll let others decide if that’s a success story.
But it does show there are many paths towards a rewarding life of work.
It’s not always about going to university.
And while exams should be retained – and rigorous – we accept that academic learning is not for everyone.
A good technical education can give young people a golden future.
This works in industrial powerhouses like Germany and South Korea.
So, we should look at giving young people a broader choice of paths from an earlier age.
We cannot afford to keep failing future generations as the SNP have done for 18 years.
Our country cannot afford more dismal decades of stagnation.
Change must come to Scotland.
The left-wing way of the SNP and Labour is taking us in one direction – and that is down.
Miserable, managed decline.
Apathy and mediocrity are acceptable to the left-wing parties.
I embrace – the Scottish Conservatives embrace — aspiration and excellence.
So our party we will keep working hard to earn back trust.
Not just for our party’s benefit, but for Scotland’s sake.
We must convince people that our Conservative vision is right.
It’s the only way to create prosperity in Scotland.
The alternative is that John Swinney will keep imposing Nicola Sturgeon’s damaging agenda.
He believes in everything that Nicola Sturgeon did.
If John was honest he would acknowledge that Nicola Sturgeon is still in the driver’s seat — I’ll resist the temptation to make another joke about campervans.
John Swinney has been quietly disposing of some of the SNP’s most unpopular ideas.
But he still can’t criticise Nicola Sturgeon.
He still can’t say she was wrong to push her gender self-ID law.
He still can’t say what a woman is.
John Swinney won’t apologise to the women whose rights he trampled on – because that would mean admitting Nicola Sturgeon was wrong.
And while he’s been shelving some of the SNP’s more madcap policies, don’t be fooled.
As soon as he thinks he can get away with it, they will be back.
Did you know that John Swinney has already let slip that he might bring forward more gender reforms in relation to so-called conversion therapy?
John Swinney has also disclosed that he intends to put breaking up the United Kingdom “back on the table”.
If the SNP manage to win next year’s election, we know what’s coming because we’ve seen it before.
It will be more of the same.
From Day One, John Swinney will be noisily issuing divisive demands to break up our country.
And in the next breath he will announce more painful tax rises to clobber hard-working Scots.
He will then patronise us by calling it “progressive”.
Frankly, it won’t be John Swinney winning another term, it will be the Nicola Sturgeon era all over again.
By the election next year, her book will have been published.
Its title is Frankly.
Chapter One – Frankly I had no idea about Peter Murrell.
Chapter Two – Frankly I had no idea about the campervan.
Chapter Three – Frankly I don’t know what a woman is.
If this tome is an account of Nicola’s achievements, then it will be a very slim volume.
Perhaps it will sit on the shelves next to the books I’ve written, which can be found in the true crime section.
But seriously, John Swinney is just more of the same.
An Amstrad politician in the Apple age.
A man who would impoverish Scotland in pursuit of his perverse desire to destroy the UK.
An SNP politician obsessed with all the wrong priorities.
People like him are why voters have lost trust in politics.
He’s the architect of cynical politics.
Of division and dishonesty, of always blaming other people.
How can John Swinney unite folk when his entire career has been devoted to dividing them?
He can’t – because divisive nationalism is in his DNA.
Just as aspiration and integrity are in our DNA.
Our party provides the essential check on SNP nonsense.
We’re the check against independence.
We’re the check against gender politics.
We’re the check against high taxes.
When every other party surrenders to the SNP, we stand strongly against them.
We stand by our principles.
Just as we have done for decades.
This year marks the 60th anniversary of our party’s formation.
It was 1965 when we officially became the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party.
Some may think we should have remained simply the Unionist Party.
But we are still the unionist party.
To be a unionist is to be a conservative and vice versa.
It means believing in the preservation of what’s good and right in our country, while being pragmatic about what needs to change.
It means we respect traditions and admire our past but are proudly optimistic about the future.
It means that we achieve more by working together as one dynamic and united country.
Every unionist is a natural conservative.
Whether they vote for us or not, we will represent them.
It’s our task to demonstrate that we’re the only party who stands for what they believe in.
To convince them that only we represent the interests of mainstream Scotland.
Friends, let me tell you – I’m proud to lead this party and I’m proud of the values we share.
We want opportunity across Scotland, so that everyone can succeed, no matter their background.
We support the strivers who want a better Scotland for their family
We celebrate aspiration, hard work and personal responsibility.
Under my leadership, the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Party stands for basic common sense.
We’re in a fight for our party’s future and for Scotland’s future.
Let’s make sure we give it our all.
