Caveats do apply, but even that notwithstanding, you see that this is pretty much a two-horse race [between the Tories and the SNP] in vast swathes of the country now.

We are in the mix or ahead of the game in the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, bits of Ayrshire, in Renfrewshire, Edinburgh, Perthshire, Stirlingshire, Angus, right the way up to Banffshire, Aberdeenshire and across to Moray.

We’ve got lots of work to do ... but it was a very encouraging result last week [see 1.05pm], and we take that [and] put a spring in our step as we go forward.

But we are the underdogs in this.