NO doubt Theresa May will make a flying visit to Scotland during the election campaign to make an earnest speech about how we are all better together. For some reason I almost have more respect for Conservative Prime Ministers who simply saw Scotland as a good place to shoot things.

Here are Tory Prime Ministers Harold Macmillan and Alec Douglas-Home out on a Scottish grouse moor on August 12 – the Glorious Twelfth.

There are more shotguns here than in a Guy Ritchie movie.

That’s some pretty tough terrain they are crossing so not an easy day lugging your guns around this hillside.

Harold on the left, beautifully turned out, was Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963. Nicknamed Supermac, he was the last Prime Minister to be born in the reign of Queen Victoria and to have served in the First World War. He might also have been the last Prime Minister to sport a moustache while in office.

His comment, “Most of our people have never had it so good,” is often quoted in a sarcastic manner, but I prefer his other comment: “Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.”

He was succeeded by Alec Douglas-Home, on the right, who was only PM for a year, before losing an election to Labour’s Harold Wilson.

The story is told that before a TV interview the make-up girl said he had a head like a skull. “Doesn’t everybody?” replied a baffled Alec.