I AM sure that I am not alone among Scottish Tories in looking forward to the results of Sir Malcolm Rifkind's Policy Commission. While we were against the wholly unnecessary establishment of a Scottish Parliament, we must none the less participate fully in the whole democratic process and use our influence to the good at Holyrood.

I look forward to the party, and its new Scottish Leader when elected, setting out some simple but clear Unionist priciples around which we should base our Holyrood manifesto.

I want to hear that we will ensure that the Health Service in Scotland will remain fully a part of the British NHS, the best health service in the world.

I want to hear that we will remove any discrimination based on ''geographic'' or any other basis to access to our publicly funded education system - and that includes the immediate removal of tution fee anomalies so beloved of New Labour.

I want to hear a pledge that the Scottish Parliament will knock on the Chancellor of the Exchequer's door every week seeking UK-wide fiscal incentives to encourage low-emission and emission-free motor vehicles - the environment cannot be tackle by a little Scottish Parliament acting in isolation - we need to influence and support our major world-power Parliament at Westminster in this, a transport issue within Holyrood's remit.

An important commitment which I want is one to increase Scotland's voice in European Union affairs - this is not a plea for more power for the Scottish Parliament so much as a plea to restore the access to Europe which Scotland had under the Tories and will now lose under New Labour's flawed schemes.

Most important, I want to know that our party, the Conservative and Unionist Party, will use all the new powers of Holyrood to strengthen and maintain the integrity of the United Kindom, to defeat all divisive campaigns seeking to undermine the Union and shy away from cheap, quick, and ostensibly popular sound-bites which the SNP will use in trying to lead us all by the nose, as they already do Dewar.

Mike Scott-Hayward,

Sawmill Cottage,

Kemback Bridge,

Cupar.

August 28.