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THE Downing Street branch of the Scottish independence movement, also known as the Union Unit, has been playing a blinder recently. It advertised for a leader who could make a case which would convince sceptical Scots that they should remain in the Union, but did not consider that knowledge of Scotland might be important. When they did appoint someone, it was actually a Scot, former MP Luke Graham, but he didn’t last long before he fell foul of the internal politics of Downing Street and was sacked. Next up was Dominic Cummings’s chum, Oliver Lewis, known as “Sonic”, who lived u...

  Herald on Sunday letters: We should bite the bullet and insist that pupils repeat the year they have missed out on Herald on Sunday letters: We should bite the bullet and insist that pupils repeat the year they have missed out on WHY don't the various governments in the UK address the major educational deficit created by the curse of Covid over the last year? Currently their solution to this problem seems to centre round piecemeal and patchwork quilt approaches. They are going to offer extra tutoring to repair the gaps left in the education of the various cohorts, all of which have bee...

comment Andrew Neil and other Unionist commentators have used the opportunity to wade in and apply glaring double standards SCOTLAND’S democratic and public institutions are under full-frontal attack by Unionists politicians and commentators. Majority support for Scottish independence continues and desperate times clearly call for desperate measures by its opponents. After months of total disinterest about the Scottish Parliament inquiry into the handling of harassment investigations, the metropolitan media ramped up their coverage ahead of evidence sessions involving the former and cur...

Scottish Conservative leader Douglas Ross DOUGLAS Ross has defended the Prime Minister excluding the Scottish Conservatives from membership of his new Union Cabinet Committee. Boris Johnson has downsized the role of his doomed Union Unit and set up the Union Cabinet Committee – made up of UK Government ministers. The Union Unit will now focus on analysis. But the Scottish Conservatives, led by Mr Ross, have not been invited to formally take part in the new unit. But Mr Ross has insisted that he will still be able to have input in the new committee through Scottish Secretary Alister...

Alister Jack and Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Sir, – More evidence that the United Kingdom’s coat is on a shoogly peg appeared with Prime Minister Boris Johnson announcing a new Cabinet Committee focusing on the Union. Scottish Secretary Alister Jack stumbled and bumbled to explain what happened to the previous Union Unit. So we still don’t know. The new committee is ‘made up’ of the motley crew of Johnson, Gove, Frost and Jack. None have a strong track record of engagement with the devolved Scottish Parliament, more likely a record of historical condescension. This simply isn’t ...