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John Dryburgh via email ONE of the main reasons I read The National online is to see the comments. I’m not interested in a whole load of boring, middle-of-the-road “SNP are great – don’t rock the boat” stuff. So I shall see how it goes, and consider whether or not to continue with my subscription. John Gordon via email WELL said Alan Hinnrichs (Letters, February 23) regarding the entryism within the SNP. It’s clear to anyone paying attention that a small band of entryists ha...

  No 10: no panic over threat to UK and Union Unit continues alongside PMs new strategy committee No panic: PM makes clear death of troubled Union Unit grossly exaggerated as it continues as part of expanded Whitehall operation DOWNING St insists the UK Government is not panicking over the threat to the Union and has made clear its troubled Union Unit is not dead but continuing as Boris Johnson establishes a new Cabinet committee to spearhead the fight against the SNP’s drive for Scottish ...

Boris faces Union crisis as SNP vow to ‘speed up desperate Scottish independence bid Richard Percival Replay Video UP NEXT Express.co.uk understands work on a draft independence bill is taking place and accelerating at speed ahead of the election period from March 25th. An SNP source, told this publication: "We are ramping up the speed to deliver our pledge for a second Scottish independence vote." Scottish independence is not inevitable says Douglas Ross Replay Video The dra...

The flyer, which was sent to households across Scotland, does not mention Boris Johnson stopping a referendum. It says: "The SNP will hold another independence referendum in the next Parliament if they win a majority at Mays election. "But their referendum can be stopped, if the SNP dont get that majority of seats. "The Scottish Conservatives are the only party able to prevent the SNP winning a majority." The leaflet contains a bar chart showing how many seats each party held in 2016...

The draft Bill was promised in the legislative programme First Minister Nicola Sturgeon set out last year. Last month, the SNP also released an 11-point "roadmap" to an independence referendum - setting out that a ballot could take place if Mays Holyrood elections result in a pro-independence majority, even if Westminster refuses to grant a Section 30 order. This could see the party force the UK Government into a legal challenge, if a Section 30 order is not granted. 21 polls have shown support...

Don’t buy the beef from Brazil Sir, – While our focus, quite rightly, has been on Covid and the long-hoped-for relaxation of lockdown, the Westminster Government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Brazil. President Bolsonaro, besides being one of the main Covid-deniers, is allowing the destruction of the Amazon Rainforest. To sign a Memorandum of Understanding with such a man and his government flies in the face of the commitment the UK Government has given not just to farmers, b...

WHEN news broke at the end of last week that Oliver Lewis – or Sonic as he is known by colleagues – had left his role as head of Number 10’s Union Unit after just two weeks, speculation followed on who would succeed him. Eyes quickly turned to Henry Newman – unveiled the previous Friday as the Prime Minister’s new senior adviser – as the man being lined up to become Boris Johnson’s key official in charge of stopping Scottish independence. It’s a remit with a growing challe...

Any concessions towards the SNP will build the case for independence and undermine the United Kingdom

THE former head of Boris Johnson’s Union Unit has outlined how the Government should fight the “fanatical separatism” of the SNP.

Oliver Lewis, the man who led Boris Johnson’s “Union Unit”, the department tasked with keeping the UK together, has quit the job after just…