Ruth Davidson made a joke party serious – the Tories must learn from her loss

'The lesson Ruth Davidson has taught her party is that the impossible can be pulled off with enough energy, optimism and Conservatism,' writes FraserNelson

When I was a reporter in Edinburgh in the early days of devolution, I was struck by how cruelly Tory MSPs teased each other. One of them, Jamie McGrigor, told me that his party should rename itself “The Effing Tories” because that is how they had become universally known. David Cameron considered killing it off, so a new party could grow in its place. The patient, he thought, was terminally ill. Then a 32-year-old kickboxer came along and changed everything.

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