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Plenty of genuine sexism & misogyny in politics. Don't need prominent women debasing the term to cover their own poor performance. Jeez.

— Ruth Davidson

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I’m not sure the party would be happy with a drippingly wet, pro-immigrant lesbian Scot.

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.

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 anyone-but-the-frontrunner.

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

I fear that having tried to be a good leader over the years, I have proved a poor daughter, sister, partner and friend. The party and my work has always come first, often at the expense of commitments to loved ones.

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