Selkirk resident and South of Scotland MSP Michelle Ballantyne has announced that she is standing for the leadership of the party in succession to Ruth Davidson MSP.

The Conservative party has published its manifesto for the 2019 General Election on 12th December 2019, together with an associated costings document. You can download copies of these by clicking on the links below.

Following his adoption by the Scottish Borders Conservative & Unionist Association as the Scottish Conservative & Unionist party candidate for the seat of Berwickshire, Selkirk and Roxburgh in the General Election to be held on 12th December 2019, John Lamont, who won the seat in the 2017

Text of the UK government White Paper on the proposed future trading relationship between the UK and the EU

Some 60 members of the Association attended a highly successful dinner with Tom Tugendhat, the MP for Tonbridge and Malling and Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, in the Buccleuch Arms, St Boswells on Friday 2nd February 2018.

The Scottish Borders Conservative & Unionist Association 2017 Christmas lunch took place on Sunday 10th December at the Ednam House Hotel in Kelso some time after this photo was taken!  As well as enjoying a splendid lunch, the 120 guests listened to a talk by Donald Cameron MSP, the new poli

The first meeting of the Scottish Borders Council following the elections on 4th May 2017 was held today and it saw Cllr Shona Haslam, the Scottish Conservative & Unionist Councillor for Tweeddale West confirmed as leader of the new administration formed by a coalition of 15 Conservative Coun

At a packed Extraordinary General Meeting of the Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk section of the Scottish Borders Conservative & Unionist Association held at the Buccleuch Arms, St Boswells on Saturday 22nd April 2017, John Lamont MSP was unanimously adopted as the Association's candidate t

An Extraordinary General Meeting of the Scottish Borders Conservative & Unionist Association will be held at 7.00 p.m. Saturday 22nd April in the Salmon Room at the Buccleuch Arms, St Boswells in order to adopt a candidate for the General Election on 8th June 2017.

Kelso ward councillors Simon Mountford and Tom Weatherston spent a busy two hours on Saturday morning manning a street stall held at the same time as the monthly Farmers' Market in Kelso Square. The stall tempted a steady stream of shoppers to cross the road from the market to chat about the upco