Prime Minister David Cameron: ‘only the Conservatives can challenge SNP establishment’

Only the Scottish Conservatives can prevent Scotland from becoming a “one party state” in the wake of Scottish Labour’s collapse, Prime Minister David Cameron will tell the party’s conference today.

In his keynote speech to delegates at Murrayfield, Cameron is expected to attack the SNP’s “litany of failure” in government and claim only the Scottish Conservatives can challenge it.

“They’ve been in power for nine years – they are the establishment,” he will say.

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The SNP record on education will feature in the Prime Minister’s speech, including “stagnating” attainment and falling College numbers.

“Then there’s the mess of the law that bans football songs. There’s the lost accountability of merging eight police forces into one. There’s the abolition of Right to Buy – yes, even though Nicola Sturgeon’s family benefited from it, she’s saying that you can’t.

“There’s even the absurd Named-Person policy, which ensures every child is allocated a guardian – even if they have parents; even if they have no need for this extra layer of bureaucracy.

“Well I’ll tell you who needs a guardian – someone to keep them in check – it’s the SNP.

“And it falls to us, the Conservatives, the only party fit to expose these spendthrift, out-of-touch, dogmatic, inept nationalists for what they really are."