It appears that under David Cameron the Tories will press for constitutional changes that would restrict the voting rights of Scottish Westminster MPs on matters of English jurisdiction. As the today's Observer leader comment points out, if the Tories really do want to hasten the end of the Union, they have a most willing partner in Alex Salmond.

The Tories are not engaging in political strategy, they are playing a tactical game and attempting to make mischief over Gordon Brown's Scottishness.

It's a badly kept secret that most of the right of centre press in this country would like to see a Conservative Government. You get the feeling that the only reason the Murdoch press has backed New Labour for 10 years in because the Tories were so unbackable in the shape they were in.

But let's look at a couple of the tabloid stories today in The Sun.