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“There’s a misconception that Scottish Tories are anti-gay”

On the snowiest day of the year so far Edinburgh is at a virtual standstill, but Ruth Davidson valiantly comes to pick me up.

She arrives in Gertrude, her 10-year-old purple Ford Fiesta, tut-tutting in disbelief at the news that visitors to the city are stranded at Waverley Station because taxis cannot get up or down the un-gritted ramp.