Douglas Ross has a certain stubbornness that, on his better days, serves to armour-plate him against the brickbats routinely thrown his way. The Tory leader is as thrawn a beast as any on display at the Turriff show. He doesn’t much care what his opponents think, he can cope with their endless disappointment easily enough.
If this doggedness is a kind of virtue, it comes at the price of nimbleness. At the last first minister’s questions before Easter, the Tory leader had an opportunity to corner Humza Yousaf but, try as he might, he let the first minister escape.
It had all begun promisingly. Did Yousaf think Police Scotland were right to open a file on Murdo Fraser in which it was noted that the
