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The prime minister’s visit is defined by pointless photos and lamentable statements
Nicola Sturgeon must have been delighted that Boris Johnson had found time in his diary to dress up in a lab coat and get in the way of a cluster of technicians. Photograph: Wattie Cheung/AFP/Getty Images
Nicola Sturgeon must have been delighted that Boris Johnson had found time in his diary to dress up in a lab coat and get in the way of a cluster of technicians. Photograph: Wattie Cheung/AFP/Getty Images
Thu 28 Jan 2021 14.47 EST
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Nicola Sturgeon couldn’t have been more clear. If the lockdown rules prevented all but essential travel – she had banned herself from visiting a vaccination centre in Aberdeen – then it was completely out of order for the prime minister to make a day trip to Scotland to drop in on a testing laboratory in Glasgow and a vaccine production facility in Livingston.
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Boris Johnson signed the trade deal on Wednesday after it was voted through by MPs. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images
Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade deal with Brussels has cleared the House of Commons as the government attempts to rush through complex legislation in just 14 hours.
The prime minister described the historic deal as “not a rupture but a resolution”, before MPs voted through the European Union (future relationship) bill by 521 votes to 73 – a majority of 448.
It meant the bill continued to the House of Lords and is expected to be given royal assent shortly before midnight.
That would pave the way for the deal to take effect at 11pm on Thursday when the Brexit transition period ends.
A SPECIALIST solicitor who uses her prolific social media activity to regularly slag off Nicola Sturgeon, her party and the Scottish Government generally, has likened the SNP to the Nazis. Janet Hood, who runs a training and consultancy business from Brechin in Angus, claims to be one of Scotland’s top licensing solicitors with more than 30 years of experience in the field. Her Twitter activity includes regular retweets of material from Tory party figures and journalists, as well as tweets from would-be politicians, keen football fans and RT broadcaster George Galloway. Hood also appears to be a fan of Graham Grant, home affairs editor of the Daily Mail’s Scottish edition. He tweeted on Monday about what he called “A day of shame” for the SNP after Coatbridge, Chryston and Bellshill MP Steven Bonnar, was criticised for allegedly saying “nationalists were prepared to fight to the death for our country”.