This Scottish election campaign has been exciting from a Scottish Lib Dem point of view. For the first time in 15 years, we have a real chance of making significant gains in our representation. The polls are putting us anywhere between 8 and 13 from our current 5.

Alex Cole-Hamilton has been brilliant at delivering our message. He lands it every time and somehow manages to make it sound fresh.

He has been on fire. Watch him tackle John Swinney on ferries in the last tv leaders’ debate:

We are focusing on 4 key areas:

• Fixing health care so you can see a GP, mental health professional or GP when you need to
• Cutting the cost of living by insulating cold homes and using our renewable energy to cut bills
• Getting Scotland moving again – sort ferries, buses, other public transport and roads
• Getting Scottish education back up the rankings by putting 2000 pupil support assistants back into classrooms and taking mobile phones out.

Our aims is to win an extra 6 constituencies in addition to the ones we already hold:

Held seats:

Fife North East: Willie Rennie
Edinburgh North Western: new boundaries for Alex Cole-Hamilton taking in more of Christine Jardine’s Westminster seat
Shetland: new candidate Emma Macdonald after Beatrice Wishart’s retirement
Orkney: Liam McArthur

Target seats:

Edinburgh Northern: Sanne Dijkstra-Downie (boundary changes to include a significant chunk of Alex Cole-Hamilton’s old seat)
Caithness, Sutherland and Ross: David Green, former Scottish Young Liberals President and party media officer
Inverness and Nairn: Neil Alexander hopes to build on Angus Macdonald’s Westminster success
Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch: Andrew Baxter takes on the other half of Angus’s seat
Argyll and Bute: Former MP Alan Reid hopes to return this seat to Lib Dem hands
Strathkelvin and Bearsden: Adam Harley

We also want to pick up seats on every list except Highlands and Islands because we would be close to world domination if we won there with the number of constituency seats we are likely to have.

Our lead candidates are:

North East: Yi-Pei Chou Turvey

Mid Scotland and Fife: Claire Maclaren

Lothians: Sanne Dijkstra-Downie, Jane Alliston Pickard second

South of Scotland: Duncan Dunlop

West of Scotland: Adam Harley with Jamie Greene, who joined us from the Conservatives in second

Central Scotland and Lothian West: Paul McGarry. We’ve not had a list MSP here since 2011 but a recent poll gave us the last seat by just over 100 votes.

For once, we have been explicit about asking people for their list vote on the peach ballot paper from the get to. Last time, we pivoted to that 10 days out and it just didn’t land.  So Alex has been baking peach frangipane tarts, putting peach syrup in people’s coffee and all sorts of other peach related gimmicks all campaign long. The one thing he has got wrong in this campaign was at a photo-opp at a farm He fed peaches to what he described as Monty, a “donkey”. Monty was in fact an alpaca and the thing that broke my heart is that there was another alpaca there who didn’t get fed. He got some teasing over that, but if that is the worst thing he has done, that is a campaign well delivered.

The big question is, though, who bungeed better, Alex or Ed Davey? I will leave it for you to judge.

Alex will be addressing activists at 10:00

Media interviews will take place around 10:15

Alex, a man clearly living his best life.

Ed, more on message in the moment.

You wouldn’t catch me doing that under any circumstances, so I think they are both incredibly brave.

There is so much to play for but we have brought our A game. So now it’s just about getting the A boards, and our vote, out tomorrow.

* Caron Lindsay is Editor of Liberal Democrat Voice and blogs at Caron's Musings. You can find her on Bluesky at caronmlindsay.bsky.social