Depth Quote by Charles Kennedy

It was here in Edinburgh that in the 1980s I joined with many others to protest against Margaret Thatcher as she arrived to address…

— Douglas Alexander

As I spread my wings in politics, I discovered many Thatcher voters down south who were the same kind of people who loathed her…

— Charles Kennedy

I know a thing or two about people in Scotland, having knocked on as many doors as I have, and they don't like people…

— Humza Yousaf

When New Labour came to power, we got a Right-wing Conservative government. I came to realise that voting Labour wasn't in Scotland's interests any…

— Jimmy Reid

That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction.

— Charles Kennedy

They say that the older you get, the more conservative you become: perhaps that's the reason there are no Tories in Scotland.

— Frankie Boyle

I had never met anyone of my own age that was a Tory, so going to university and seeing people who were Tories and…

— Liz Truss

I have an ambivalent relationship with Margaret Thatcher. She came to power in May 1979 - a month before my 11th birthday. I was…

— Sara Sheridan

I was Margaret Thatcher in the school election during the 1983 General Election.

— Liz Truss

Too often in the past, Scotland has been sidelined and ignored in the Westminster corridors of power, but that doesn't have to be the…

— Nicola Sturgeon

Taxing people for having a spare bedroom and forcing them into rent arrears or the possibility of losing homes they have lived in for…

— Nicola Sturgeon

Tory governments are bad for Scotland.

— Nicola Sturgeon