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The Scottish Conservative leader, Ruth Davidson, has told supporters that there are no longer any "no-go areas" for her party, as she tried to establish the Tories as the main opposition to the Scottish National Party.

As the Conservatives and Labour launched their campaigns in Scotland, they seized on the official results from last week's council elections to suggest that the SNP's lead had shrunk.

The SNP took 32.3% of first preference votes in the single transferable vote system, with the Tories on 25.3% and Labour on 20.2%.

The Tories won an extra 161 seats compared to the previous local elections in 2012, mostly at Labour's expense.

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Ruth Davidson told Sky News that "Conservatives have come first right across the country" and were now "leading the fight back against the SNP".

SNP leader and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon pointed out that her party had ousted Labour from control of a Glasgow City Council after 40 years, and still had the largest number of councillors across the country.

But Labour said that the "Sturgeon surge has become the Sturgeon slump" and the party's leader in Scotland, Kezia Dugdale, told supporters "a vote for the Tories won't send Nicola Sturgeon a message - it will just send Theresa May back to Downing Street".

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Liberal Democrat leader took his campaign bus to several Scottish seats it hopes to regain.

The party lost 10 MPs in the 2015 General Election, and now holds only one seat in Orkney and Shetland.

He raised the spectre of a big majority for 's government, and another big win for the SNP who took 56 out of 59 seats.

He said: "How much worse would it be if the only opposition to that - in Scotland - were people who want to rip the United Kingdom apart and put Scotland through another divisive referendum?"

But in the local elections the Lib Dems secured only 6.8% of first preference votes.