Hope...

......is the theme of this year’s SNP Conference. Hope for a better future which , as a Government, we are trying to deliver despite what is happening all around us.

(My extra picture shows hope of another kind - the hope that underpins new investment like the dazzling new Clydesdie Distillery built inside a restored and wonderfully extende old dock Pump House where the Channel 4 Reception was held tonight. The view from the still room is extraordinary.)