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Letters SNP Commons leader Pete Wishart speaks in the House of Commons, London, where he said that ministers must urgently explain whether or not the police investigation into Conservative MPs election expenses swayed a decision for a snap election.. MR Pete Wishart MP may believe the SNP’s new route map to independence is the only way forward (Holyrood election is not a de facto vote on indyref2, February 17) but sadly the more predictable outcome is that no-one in Westminster will be quak...

NICOLA STURGEON has brutally taunted Boris Johnson after the head of the Prime Ministers so-called Union unit, aimed at preventing Scottish independence, quit just two weeks into the job.

THE chief of Downing Street’s beleaguered Union Unit has quit after just two weeks in the job.  Oliver “Sonic” Lewis unexpectedly left the post on Friday, with reports saying he felt his position was being made “untenable” by others in No 10.  He’s supposedly the latest casualty in a Whitehall turf war involving the Prime Minister’s fiancee Carrie Symonds.  Last Friday Johnson appointed Simone Finn as his deputy chief of staff and former Michael Gove aide Henry Newman a...

Oliver Lewis resigned after clashing with allies of Michael Gove, it is claimed

DEVOLUTION has not been a disaster, Boris Johnson has insisted, as he said the way public services had pulled together through the pandemic had…

THE Prime Minister was told to create a Cabinet position solely focused on the Union as a way to see off Scottish independence, it has emerged.

THE polling stations had opened in Barcelona

THE Union Unit was meeting for the first time under its new commander: Brigadier Oliver Lewis, sometime friend of General Cummings (missing in action) and the latter’s batman during the heroic Battle of the Brexit. Lewis also wore the Order of the Red Wall for his commando raids in the north during the 2019 election campaign. “Today, gentlemen,” he began in gruff Churchillian tones, “today we take back Scotland!” The unit was meeting in the deep underground bunker under Whitehall ...

THE notorious Valentine’s Day massacre took place in 1929 as bands of thugs in Chicago battled it out for supremacy. It resulted in the murder of seven members of Chicago’s North Side Gang. The men gathered at a garage on the morning of February 14, where they were lined up against a wall and shot by four unknown assailants dressed as police officers. The incident resulted from the struggle to control organised crime in the city during Prohibition and a fight between the Irish North Sid...

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