The Prime Minister will campaign in Scotland next month during the do or die battle with Nicola Sturgeon and her Scottish Nationalist Party – sorry, the Scottish National Party.

There had been some doubt about this. The B question – what to do with Boris during the Holyrood election – is not straightforward for the Tories. The PM is, to put it mildly, not naturally popular north of the border. But he won’t hide, and nor should he, say the Scottish Tories.