Boris Johnson's 'English nationalist' government has been blamed for rising support for independence BORIS Johnson’s “anti-Scottish” administration is driving support for independence, according to former Welsh Labour first minister. Carwyn Jones warned the Prime Minister that the Union will break up within a decade if he continues to deny the democratic will of Scots. “Boris Johnson is head of a government that is very English nationalist in its outlook,” he told Constitutionally Sound, the podcast by Edinburgh University’s Centre on Constitutional Change. "Very anti-Scottish, actually, and anti-everybody else from my perspective. If you keep on saying 'no' to democrats you give succour to people who are far more extreme.