Our conference this weekend will highlight why in huge swathes of the country – the North East, the Highlands and Islands, almost all of the South of Scotland – it is to us, and not Labour, that voters are turning.
Labour’s other problem is that on every issue bar independence, there isn’t room to put a cigarette paper between their approach and the SNP’s
The end of the iron discipline which made any criticism of the leadership unthinkable has exposed the deep divisions within the party and kicked off its vicious civil war.
Basic services – the NHS, policing, schools, road maintenance, refuse collection, you name it – have gone to rack and ruin. Life expectancy has fallen sharply. We still have, to our shame, by far the worst drug death levels in Europe.
And her government has decided that the best time to do all this is in the middle of the most serious energy crisis in decades.
Scotland under the Sturgeon is the highest-taxed and worst governed part of the UK. That’s the result of the SNP’s failure to square up to its responsibilities, rather than concentrating on their separatist fantasies.
Just a few months ahead of the Scottish Parliament Election, voters deserve to know the truth of whether they can trust the First Minister’s word.
While his personal deficiencies certainly contributed to his downfall, don’t underestimate the dogged and persistent work by the Scottish Conservatives in exposing his government’s failures and holding him to account.