Kemi Badenoch

Instead, he’s shamefully once again preferring to grandstand on the international stage at a time when Scots are sick of paying more but getting less.

John Swinney should be prioritising bringing down people’s bills, growing Scotland’s economy, restoring standards in schools and backing new drilling in the North Sea.

He has spent the week boasting about how he wants to cut the costs of his bloated civil service in Scotland, but at the same time he’s committed to wasting more taxpayers’ money and time on opening more of his fake embassies.

That is not how this works.

Strong countries are not attacked, only weak ones.

We would not do similar. The Conservatives believe in free speech.

We need to be strong. If you want peace, you prepare for war.

I don’t think that this is anything like what happened with Windrush, where there were people who had citizenship but couldn’t prove it.

Like Keir Starmer, Andy Burnham is kicking defence spending into the long grass. I cannot tell you how urgent this is.

I think you could … [see] what kind of government they would be – authoritarian and using state power actually to pursue opponents is what they’ve effectively been threatening.

If you want a peace, you have to prepare for war. And I believe that strong countries don’t get attacked.

If Nigel Farage can’t handle difficult questions about his dodgy £5m, then he shouldn’t be a politician.

Absolutely not … Conservatives believe in free speech, where people are welcome to criticise us as much as they like.

It is not going to increase child poverty. What increases child poverty is children's parents not having work or being paid low wages.

Our enemies are not going to sit around and wait for Labour to find the money to fight them.

Andy Burnham is kicking defence spending into the long grass.

Conflict is coming, we must act now.

His diagnosis is completely wrong," she told the House of Commons. "His theory of growth is completely wrong. He thinks that if Government spends more money, we will all get richer. That is not how this works.

Kemi is changing the way the Conservative party approaches economic policy and creating a new economic leadership team for the next phase, focused on growth, higher living standards and fiscal credibility.

I see it as a place that feels like it gets ignored by Westminster.

I do feel the pull to Scotland because I see it as a place that should be more conservative than it is.

‘What I want is a Conservative government, not a monstrous Reform-Conservative hybrid, which will actually put as many people off as it gains.’

‘They’re all over the place’

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.

I think this would be very much a manufactured Scottish identity. The name is not mine; it’s my husband’s.