You can feel there’s an election on as politicians seem to be popping up in the most unlikeliest places which can only mean they are looking for votes.

Humza Yousaf braved the A9 this week as he appeared, as if by magic, in Dingwall to offer support to the local candidate in the upcoming General Election.

No-one knows when this will actually be of course, but you have to give him credit for his forward planning.

But more importantly, it offered the First Minister a glorious opportunity to see and hear first hand the acute problems faced by people across the Highlands and Islands.

Will he have listened before jumping into his ministerial limo back to the central belt?

Well, judging by recent history he may have listened, but like so many of his predecessors he will have forgotten all about it after passing Perth on the way back to Edinburgh.

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