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You almost had to see it to believe it.
Kemi Badenoch’s team could have chosen anywhere in Scotland to hold their media event on Friday morning.
On Thursday, they picked a whisky distillery to talk tough on the cameras in the wake of Robert Jenrick’s alleged scheming and plotting with Nigel Farage.
And on the morning after the highest profile Conservative defection, the Tories rallied Sky News and others to an industrial estate on the outskirts of Aberdeen.
It was a survival training centre preparing offshore workers for worst-case-scenario disasters.
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We were asked to line up our camera for our five-minute slots, which were cut to four minutes.
The room had two giant swimming pools with large life rafts or lifeboats. The type of rubber vessels that North Sea workers would cling to and hoist themselves on board if an emergency unfolded in choppy waters.
Ms Badenoch with Mr Findlay, left, and shadow Scottish secretary Andrew Bowie, centre right. Pic: PA
Workers were being put through their paces, treading water, dressed in their safety gear.
Given the political context of the past 24 hours, it seemed an extraordinary choice of location, given the obvious headlines that would be generated.
As we prepared our camera, Ms Badenoch’s minders shuffled over to try and take a look at what we would be filming,…
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