Thankfully, I know terrible advice when I hear it and the results on Friday proved my point.

And what kind of character accepts £5m in cash and says it was merely a gift?

Character matters in politics because character is what is tested when things get tough.

Aberdeen will not be ignored. The sector will not be ignored.

What this means is that we have won that referendum on oil and gas.

This could be a turning point for us. It is an extraordinary victory, and Kemi has something to pin our comeback on.

A message has been sent that we do need to drill our own oil in the North Sea, not take oil from Russia or Norway when we have got our own oil right here.

Aberdeen South was about thousands of jobs in oil and gas across our country and the future of an entire city.

Aberdeen has sent a message to the Labour government and the SNP that we will not be ignored.

The Makerfield by-election was about one man's job. The Aberdeen South by-election was about thousands of jobs all over the country but especially in the oil and gas sector.

is working to earn the trust of the country again

Voting Tory would give the sector a “kiss of life”, the Conservative leader says.

We cannot have our military inadequately funded at a time of growing threats.

No one should face intimidation, threats or attacks because they hold public office.

This is total madness from another unaccountable quango.

Keir Starmer is on his way to making his last acts in office the shameful under-funding of our military and the mass slaughter of Dartmoor ponies.

Democracy is settled at the ballot box, not through fear or violence and definitely not through foreign interference from hostile countries.

Bringing forward legislation which many people said was so bad it did not pass muster in the middle of a government crisis shows what kind of people sit on the Labour backbenches.

I pay tribute to the brave Royal Marine Commandos who boarded a Russian shadow fleet oil tanker overnight in the English Channel.

It is time to get serious. We cannot have our military inadequately funded at a time of growing threats.

Kemi Badenoch told us that the Tories would scrap the public-sector equality duty. How will this strengthen society? Will this build houses quicker than they are burnt down?

We need to start funding defence. We need to get to 3% of GDP by the end of this parliament …

Keir Starmer has no plan whatsoever. I don’t see how he can stay in this job. He can’t run the country. He is paralysed because his backbenchers only want to spend money on welfare.

His health secretary resigned two weeks ago. His defence secretary has resigned at a critical time when we are facing global threats, and he is doing so because the prime minister is trying to please his backbenchers by putting money into…

He has only three options: cutting spending, more borrowing, or higher taxes. We know that the chancellor wants to put up tax to pay for it.