Tory Star Who Might Succeed May Says She's Staying in Scotland
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The biggest applause on the first day of the Conservative Party conference was for the woman who led the Tories to stunning electoral success in June. Not Theresa May, then.
There was a standing ovation for Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, before she’d even started speaking in Manchester on Sunday. Davidson headed a campaign that saw the Conservatives increase their number of seats in Scotland in the U.K. election from just one.