The Scottish Conservative leader’s departure leaves Boris Johnson’s fledgling government in a quandary
In the mischievous hours on the dancefloor of a rascally Edinburgh nightclub, the leader of the Scottish Conservatives was in spate. A troupe of journalists and politicians had descended after a black-tie event and Ruth Davidson was dismantling common perceptions of conservatism: nothing louche or inappropriate, you understand, just a woman at ease with herself in the company of wolves.
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