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Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson (centre)

RUTH DAVIDSON has led her party to become the second biggest at Holyrood, and from just one Westminster seat to 13. 

You could say the Scottish Conservatives are in an insurgent renaissance.

But you wouldn’t know it from their conference this weekend. The party made use of just a small section of the huge hall at the Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre. 

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