SNP ministers are blocking witnesses and withholding legal advice. Can the opposition capitalise?
The Scottish leader has always tried to temper expectations about the country’s fight with Covid. This could pay off in an independence referendum.
He is right to suspect value placed on the Union by some senior figures in this government. The Prime Minister must lead by example.
The Nationalists’ campaign has been so successful that leading pro-UK campaigners shy away from saying ‘Britain’. That isn’t sustainable.
But with the Scottish Government’s ratings apparently impervious to its record, the real question is whether these damning figures will make any difference.
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He did not create the problems which bedevil the Party, and his departure alone will not resolve them.
That Johnson’s recent visit was reported as though he were a Governor-General of Imperial India touring the North-West frontier is a bad sign.
The May Government set a time-bomb under the Union when it agreed to the mass devolution of ex-EU powers. Ministers must think again.
At Conservative Progress, we’re determined to stop the separatists having the run of the debate and emphasise what binds Britain together.