NICOLA Sturgeon has been forced into a U-turn over a controversial policy to quarantine all travellers entering Scotland from abroad in hotels - 24 hours before the new rules come into force.
SCOTTISH Tory leader Douglas Ross has branded the SNP reckless and has vowed to stop the party in their tracks , as Nicola Sturgeon outlines plans to publish a timetable for IndyRef2 during the middle of a pandemic.
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Scotland s Constitution Secretary Michael Russell said a draft bill paving the way for indyref2 would be published within the next six weeks before the Scottish elections. But Freedom of Information (FOI) requests revealed Boris Johnson and Tory ministers are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on new staff for its Union Unit” to defend increasing support for Scottish independence.
According to writer Alan Cochrane, unionists must launch a “full-blooded attack” on the SNP.
He argued exposing the nationalists record in government, rather than new constitutional arrangements, will be the key to saving the union.
Mr Cochrane wrote in the Daily Telegraph: “It is time for Unionists to attack the useless SNP. The SNP administration is a truly appalling government, a ragbag of competing egos enmeshed in a bitter internal war played out on a daily basis between its past and present leaders, Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon, and with a record in domestic policy that’s second to none for ineptitude.