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The Union Flag The official government release included a note to editors, picked up by the press, to the effect that “there is specific legislation setting out the arrangements for the flying of flags from government buildings” in the Province. This was taken by some papers, such as The Guardian, to mean that “the new regulations will not apply to Northern Ireland”. Critics were swift to point out that once again, the Prime Minister’s efforts seemed only to have confirmed Ulster’s semi-detached status. Sign up to our daily newsletter The i newsletter cut through the noise Sign up

BORIS Johnson wanted to stop an inquiry into the source of leaks to the media from Downing Street to protect one of his fiancee’s best friends, Dominic Cummings has alleged. The former chief special adviser attacked Johnson on his website following accusations from No10 that he had been responsible for handing the media private texts sent from billionaire Brexiteer James Dyson to the Prime Minister. However, the Prime Minister has denied that Cummings's claims are true.  It was widely reported that Johnson believed his former right-hand man was trying to “undermine” his governm...

Ministers were worried that the UK’s international reputation would be damaged if Scotland left the UK and took all the oil with it LABOUR ministers drew up secret plans to hive off Shetland – and possibly Orkney – from an independent Scotland as well as to change maritime borders in order to bring North Sea oil into “English waters” as part of a covert campaign to scupper independence, it has emerged. Newly released documents from the late 1970s reveal the government led by Jim Callaghan (below) created a clandestine “publicity and propaganda” unit to counter the SNP. The...

National Extra James Callaghan (top) and Boris Johnson both had 'Union Units' to counter the SNP, and an oil rig in the North Sea. FOR many folk in Scotland, it will come as no surprise – as now finally revealed in papers held secret at the UK National Archives at Kew for the last 40 years – that Labour ministers in the 1970s plotted to transfer North Sea oil to “English waters” in order to sabotage Scottish independence. After all, London governments have used dirty tricks against every move towards independence, in every British colony. The only difference between the 1970s a...

Rycroft said Johnson had a “muscular brand of Unionism ... which is increasingly expressed in combative terms”. It said this brand of Unionism sees Westminster reluctant to share platforms with first ministers. The report references Johnson’s remarks to a group of Conservative MPs last year, saying devolution was a “disaster” and one of Tony Blair’s “biggest mistakes”. It adds: “Whether this yields the right strategic approach for Unionists to adopt in the current, increasingly fraught, political context is an issue that needs to be more widely and publicly aired. ...