Speaker(s): Ruth Davidson | Ruth Davidson will use the lecture to speak about the fresh case for the United Kingdom in the wake of the Brexit vote. Ruth Davidson (@RuthDavidsonMSP) entered the Scottish Parliament on the Glasgow regional list in 2011. Following the resignation of Annabel Goldie, Ruth was elected leader of the Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party in November of that year. In May 2016 she was re-elected as the constituency MSP for Edinburgh Central and now leads the official Opposition party at Holyrood. Tony Travers is Director of LSE London at the London School of Economics and Political Science and a professor in the School’s Government Department. The Department of Government (@LSEGovernment) at LSE is one of the largest political science departments in the UK. Our activities cover a comprehensive range of approaches to the study of politics.