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Are Scots ready to turn right once again?

Harry Reid: At long last, the Scottish Tories are wakening from their self-deluding torpor.

A month ago I wrote that, while despairing of the tribal and visceral anti-Toryism that besmirches Scotland, I also despaired of the Caledonian Tories. Clueless, gormless and in effect leaderless, the party in Scotland seemed content to drift to inglorious oblivion.