It’s like watching bald men fighting over a comb, declared one Holyrood wag to me when the Scottish Conservative leadership election was engulfed in accusations of smear campaigns and bullying.
Certainly the race to replace Douglas Ross as leader of the Scottish Conservatives had something of a shoulder-shrug about it. The ways the polls stack up at the moment, why would anyone want to compete to lead a party into third place in the next Holyrood elections? But, compete they did, and ultimately, it was the party’s justice spokesperson, Russell Findlay, who emerged triumphant, resoundingly beating Murdo Fraser and Meghan Gallacher.
John Swinney and his party will be looking to defend 19 years in power, that’s a big domestic record for opposition parties to have a go at, and Findlay will likely be looking closely at how he can weaponise that.He also has to have an eye on the Reform vote. At the General Election the Conservatives lost out in at least two seats in Scotland, to the SNP, because people voted Reform. And Nigel Farage’s party has threatened to take the Holyrood elections very seriously.
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