The Campbells are coming

SCOTLAND'S domination of the body politic in Britain continues unabated with the Lib Dems replacing the Isle of Skye's MP Charles Kennedy with Sir Ming Campbell, who represents the university and golfing town of St Andrews. Soon Gordon Brown - MP for those iconic soccer clubs Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath - will be taking over from Edinburgh public school boy Tony Blair.

Does it matter? I love Scotland,  proudly wear Clan Graham ties, and want the country to remain in the union, but the the Scottish tail is starting to wag the English dog - and once dogs are roused, they soon snarl and bite back, which can only be to the Tories' advantage.

The Tories, of course, have had their share of Scottish prime ministers. Andrew Bonar Law was a Glasgow MP - that's right, a Tory MP for Glasgow - while Sir Alec Douglas-Home represented Kinross and West Perthshire.

Wales has always well served Labour. Three leaders on the trot - James Callaghan, Michael Foot, and Neil Kinnock - were MPs for Welsh constituencies, and they were suceeded by John Smith, who was one of Labour's Scottish oligarchy.

Prime Ministers who have sat for English constituences since the war were Clem Attlee, Sir Winston Churchill, Sir Anthony Eden, Harold Macmillan, Harold Wilson, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, and Tony Blair.

Will David Cameron, who sits for an Oxfordshire constituency, overcome the two Scots at the next election? Perhaps, but I hope he resists the temptation to play the Little Englander card. That won't do the union any good whatsoever.