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The Scottish Tories are coming – how 12 new MPs can change the Conservative Party

Ruth Davidson's party is settling in at Westminster. And they're not impressed by the DUP. 

By Julia Rampen

As the ballot papers settled, and Theresa May announced she was in talks with the socially conservative Democratic Unionist Party, one Tory made her scepticism clear. 

“I was fairly straightforward with her,” Ruth Davidson told the BBC’s Reporting Scotland. “And I told her that there were a number of things that count to me more than party.

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