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Carrie Symonds is on the cover of Tatler magazines April issue  The society bible charts the rise and rise of Boris Johnsons fiancée at No 10  Asks: Is she the scheming Lady Macbeth pulling the strings inside No 10 or a fun-loving friend, feminist and mother, who just wants to save the planet? Some 69% of people believe Miss Symonds influences the PMs decisions 

APPALLED though I was, I was unfortunately not entirely surprised to hear Alister Jack, Westminster’s minion in Scotland, extolling their bright new form of devolution on Good Morning Scotland yesterday. No wonder they thought it would be a good time to bury bad news, since, judging by headlines in the English media, they think every single person in Scotland is as obsessed as they are by the Salmond/Sturgeon saga. Instead of passing the Barnett consequentials to the devolved government o...

Oops, sorry. We shouldn’t be calling him that. Let’s start again. Conservative and Unionist Party MP Andrew Bowie must be absolutely furious at Conservative and Unionist Party MP Andrew Bowie. That’s a bit of a mouthful, but it’s how Bowie wants us all to refer to his political party. Yesterday at Westminster’s Scottish Affair Committee the chair, Pete Wishart, offered a correction after another member “inadvertently” referred to his party as the “Scottish nationalist part...

On the sidelines: Douglas Ross has not been invited to join the Cabinet committee which will feature Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak DOUGLAS Ross has defended the exclusion of his own party from the top table of Unionist strategy in Downing Street. News broke of Boris Johnson’s plan to replace the beleaguered Union Unit with a Cabinet committee on Wednesday evening. However, a representative of Douglas Ross’s Scottish Tories is missing from the committees all-male membership. Cabinet ...

Westminster does not have the right to block Scottish democracy If the SNP wins this election, Boris Johnson or any other Westminster politician, will not have any right to block the democratic wishes of the Scottish people. Boris Johnson knows he cannot stand in the way of democracy, just as his pal Donald Trump could not. The election on May 6 is our historic opportunity to send Westminster a message they won’t be able to ignore. The Tories know a referendum is on the cards – they’re al...

Her critics are right that she is unelected: but so is every aide in Downing Street

Boris Johnson plans to bypass Holyrood for spending projects defended as true devolution Scottish Secretary Alister Jack denied plans replace EU funding with direct Westminster finance amount to a power grab as he confirmed a new cabinet committee chaired by the PM to defend the Union. Scottish Secretary Alister Jack confirmed the formation of a new Union strategy committee (Image: Aaron Chown/PA Wire) Our Politics newsletter is now daily. Join thousands of others and get the latest Scottish po...

The Scottish Secretary has defended Westminster’s plans to invest millions on Scottish projects over the heads of Holyrood ministers.

The Scottish Government will not be “clobbered” by Westminster, a Government minister has said. Iain Stewart, junior minister for the Scotland Office, told a committee of MPs this morning that there was very good joint working between the two governments, after being asked by SNP MP Pete Wishart if Holyrood should “expect to be cuddled or clobbered” by the UK Government. Mr Wishart, who chairs the Scottish Affairs Committee, was pressing Mr Stewart on the publication of the long-a...

DOWNING St’s troubled Union Unit has been scrapped in the wake of continuing disarray as Boris Johnson tries to get a grip on his bid to fight…