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THE UK Government has ramped up spending on marketing and research consultants as part of efforts to defend the Union, with almost £100,000 spent on contracts in a month. Figures released by the Cabinet Office show details of spending on three companies in December and January relating to the “Union campaign”. The first, totalling £34,617, was given to Engine Partners UK for advertising. The company describes itself as 13 specialist marketing agencies under one roof, which work to...

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The PM's best hope of keeping the Union in tact is to sit back and let the SNP civil war roll on

Nearly three in four Scots believe the country would “fare better” outside the United Kingdom, a new poll has found. 71 per cent of poll respondents said that Scotland would “fare better without being part of the UK”, while 53 per cent backed independence. More than 1,000 Scottish adults were involved in the research, which was carried out between 18 and 22 February by Savanta ComRes for ITV’s Tonight programme. Support for Scottish independence...

THE Prime Minister has claimed that the SNP’s plans to hold a second Scottish independence referendum are “uncalled for and unnecessary”.

THE Downing Street branch of the Scottish independence movement, also known as the Union Unit, has been playing a blinder recently. It advertised for a leader who could make a case which would convince sceptical Scots that they should remain in the Union, but did not consider that knowledge of Scotland might be important. When they did appoint someone, it was actually a Scot, former MP Luke Graham, but he didn’t last long before he fell foul of the internal politics of Downing Street and ...

  Herald on Sunday letters: We should bite the bullet and insist that pupils repeat the year they have missed out on Herald on Sunday letters: We should bite the bullet and insist that pupils repeat the year they have missed out on WHY dont the various governments in the UK address the major educational deficit created by the curse of Covid over the last year? Currently their solution to this problem seems to centre round piecemeal and patchwork quilt approaches. They are going to offer ex...

comment Andrew Neil and other Unionist commentators have used the opportunity to wade in and apply glaring double standards SCOTLAND’S democratic and public institutions are under full-frontal attack by Unionists politicians and commentators. Majority support for Scottish independence continues and desperate times clearly call for desperate measures by its opponents. After months of total disinterest about the Scottish Parliament inquiry into the handling of harassment investigations, the...

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross DOUGLAS Ross has defended the Prime Minister excluding the Scottish Conservatives from membership of his new Union Cabinet Committee. Boris Johnson has downsized the role of his doomed Union Unit and set up the Union Cabinet Committee – made up of UK Government ministers. The Union Unit will now focus on analysis. But the Scottish Conservatives, led by Mr Ross, have not been invited to formally take part in the new unit. But Mr Ross has insis...

Alister Jack and Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Sir, – More evidence that the United Kingdom’s coat is on a shoogly peg appeared with Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing a new Cabinet Committee focusing on the Union. Scottish Secretary Alister Jack stumbled and bumbled to explain what happened to the previous Union Unit. So we still don’t know. The new committee is ‘made up’ of the motley crew of Johnson, Gove, Frost and Jack. None have a strong track record of engagement with the ...