Tory high command yesterday continued its brutally honest assessment about the party's poor performance in Scotland by admitting it was "still struggling" to address the modern-day concerns of Scottish voters.
One Tory candidate even suggested the party should adopt a more Nationalist "stuff England" tone.
Today, as David Cameron brings his shadow cabinet to Edinburgh, some colleagues are hoping he will have a Hollywood effect on voters in the Scottish capital.
Annabel Goldie, Scottish Tory leader, claimed the Old Etonian was popular in Scotland. She told ePolitix.com: "On his last visit when he and I were walking along Princes Street I thought I was in the company of George Clooney or Ewan McGregor because people were rushing forward.
"They wanted to speak to him, they wanted their photograph taken with him."
Just hours after Mr Cameron, in an exclusive interview with The Herald, admitted his party had let Scotland down, David Mundell, the Tories' solitary Scottish MP, suggested the Tories were still not addressing people's concerns effectively.
The Shadow Scottish Secretary told the BBC: "We have to change. We've got to become a party which people feel is in touch with the issues they are concerned about in Scotland - health, education, transport, the economy - and we are still struggling to do that."
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