We have a prime minister with one foot out the door and a leadership election which has split the party between cheerleaders for the frontrunner and … - Ruth Davidson

My plea to people in the room is: let’s use the kick up the backside the voters have given both the main parties, to really focus minds.

Any Conservative leadership candidate must put the Union first. Jeremy [Hunt] has done so and will get my vote.

There are times when you feel, oh shit, I wish I hadn’t done that, and you beat yourself up about it; and there are times when you feel desperately, desperately alone because it doesn’t feel like anyone’s helping you with the task. You have ‘punch the air’ moments, and you have ‘crying silently at night so as not to wake up the person next to you’ moments. But I guess leadership is about doing that in your own time. It’s about strength and tenacity and moral courage.