Kemi Badenoch: “I will fight you all the way, you're destroying children's lives.”

But I do feel the pull to Scotland because I see it as a place that should be more conservative than it is. I see it as a place that feels like it gets ignored by Westminster.

He should have done that and allowed himself to face questions from MPs. That’s what we’re elected to do.

When the proper process has run its course and there is a genuine contest, we will be there.

Yes, he is somebody who had been previously convicted but he is someone who has shown contrition for his crimes, has been rehabilitated and is spending every day working to solve the very problem which he knew that he had caused previously.