Scottish Conservatives plot return from brink of political oblivion

Tory leader Ruth Davidson’s sense of humour and PR skills lead party to hope it can achieve breakthrough in JuneScottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson was in her office in the Scottish parliament at about 9am on Tuesday, 18 April working on a speech for that evening when the call came through. It was Theresa May on the line to tell her, before the cabinet and two hours before the public announcement in Downing Street, that she was calling a general election for 8 June.In the recent pas