If this election is — as both Ruth Davidson and Nicola Sturgeon claim — a straight fight between the SNP and the Conservatives, then nowhere encapsulates this battle more than the Borders seat of Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk (Hamish Macdonell writes).
This tranquil constituency along the River Tweed is playing host to one of the toughest election fights north of the border with Calum Kerr, the sitting SNP MP, trying to defend a meagre 328 majority over the Conservatives’ John Lamont.
Mr Lamont has fought this seat three times before, coming second every time, and he resigned his Holyrood seat early in the campaign to turn his full attention to this contest — a clear sign of his determination to finally win.
He knows, and