Scottish Tory members are due to gather in Edinburgh next weekend for their annual conference, with under-pressure party leader Kemi Badenoch addressing delegates on the Friday morning.

Inside story: How Labour's triumph in Hamilton has left the SNP and Swinney reeling

Inside the Hamilton by-election drama — Unspun Live emergency podcast

Labour’s win in Hamilton by-rewrites the script for next year's Holyrood election

In her message to activists in the conference handbook, the opposition leader said she and Mr Findlay had been “elected in the aftermath of the worst defeat in our party’s history, so we knew the scale of the challenge facing us from day one.”

That challenge was laid bare last week in the Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse by-election, where Reform UK candidate Ross Lam

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