I share Holyrood’s priorities of improving lives and opportunities, tackling child poverty and creating a well-being economy; and agree with Humza Yousaf that honouring the voters’ mandate to deliver a fairer and greener Scotland is Holyrood’s “day job”.

However, David Frost, the hard Brexit negotiator in the House of Lords, claims the SNP is in power because “we, the Conservative Party and Conservative Government, have allowed this to happen”.

An astonishing claim, considering Scotland hasn’t voted Tory since 1955; and Lord Frost, for whom the 52 per cent vote for Brexit expressed the unchallengeable “will of the people”, ignores the settled will of the 74.26 per cent who voted for Scottish devolution.

From 2007 and, increasingly in East Lothian from 2015, voters have trusted the SNP. For Lord Frost this is an outcome so “dangerous” that UK Ministers should “review and roll back currently devolved powers”.

Frost’s incompetent diplomacy resulted in the intractable Northern Ireland protocol problems, yet he denies Scotland’s entitlement to a place on the world stage.

My colleague Angus Robertson is cabinet secretary for external affairs, but Frost finds that international engagement isn’t necessary “to run an effective local administration which is what devolution should be about”.

This denigrates Holyrood’s national standing and underestimates the democratic dignity of Scotland’s people: 88 per cent believe it “very important” to vote in Holyrood elections (British Social Attitudes Survey 39), a percentage even higher than the 84.6 per cent turnout in 2014’s referendum.

Scottish Tories must disown Frost’s attack on our democracy; Labour should warn its leader that claiming to be Prime Minister “for the UK” didn’t work for Boris Johnson, and it won’t work for Starmer.

The SNP government is listening to voters; tackling the cost of living; targeting long-term security for ferries; and ensuring the deposit return scheme works for all.

East Lothian’s questions and election choices are clear: pro-Brexit Labour led by London? Discredited, unjust and out-of-touch Tory privilege? Or an accountable SNP government defending Scotland’s autonomy, democracy and wellbeing?