NORMALLY when a Tory politician resigns to spend more time with their family it’s because they’ve been caught at it with their secretary or taking bungs from the Saudis.

There’s no whiff of scandal here. Davidson just genuinely wants to spend more time with Finn, her 11-month-old son.

She wants to be there for all his big moments, like the first time he watches her successor defend Boris Johnson’s No-Deal Brexit.

His first birthday is coming up just five days before Britain crashes out of Europe, which is lucky for Davidson and partner Jen because the supermarkets won’t be completely trashed by then.

Have you ever tried to make birthday cake from powdered butter and seagull eggs?

Can you imagine how happy Davidson is now? No more having to discover yet another racist councillor.

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No more siting in awkward silence in the chamber while MSPs from all parties lay into the rape clause.

Davidson has had quite a shift. She’s fought seven national elections and two referendums. It’s been personal too. For much of her time, it’s not been the Scottish Conservative Party but Ruth Davidson’s Conservatives.

Davidson took over from Annabel Goldie eight years ago, which doesn’t seem like a lot, but in Scottish Labour terms it’s equal to five leaders.

Pundits have put forward names like Adam Tomkins, Donald Cameron, Jackson Carlaw and Annie Wells as potential replacements.

Murdo Fraser is currently the bookie’s favourite but that’s probably because no bookie has ever met Murdo Fraser.

Whoever takes over next will have an near impossible job. Davidson’s success partly stemmed from the fact she was starting from a very low threshold.

But now the Scottish Tories face a seemingly imminent General Election, 13 MPs to hold on to and a Prime Minister who doesn’t give a hoot about the Union.