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The Union Unit now enters its fifth iteration in just 16th months. In October 2019, it was announced that “to strengthen the Union and Scotland’s place in the UK, the Government has established a Union Unit within Downing Street. The unit is tasked with reviewing the impact of all policy proposals on the Union, ensuring all nations and regions are taken into consideration”. Just nine months later we heard “a new Cabinet group has been set up to promote Boris Johnson’s agenda and devise policies that will enhance the UK Government’s standing in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ir...

DURING his stint as editor of The Spectator, our beloved Prime Minister once published a now infamous poem that referred to Scots as a “verminous race”. The questionable attempt at satire concluded that Scotland "deserves not merely isolation, but comprehensive extermination". For all of my criticisms of Boris Johnson, I never thought he’d take the advice quite so literally as to have a stab at it. Yet what else could be said about a Prime Minister who knowingly took a cross country trip into Scotland to visit a Covid-19 hotspot before continuing on with his ill-advised journey? ...

IF you can cast your mind back to the summer of last year you might remember Boris Johnson ordering his prime ministerial jet be painted in the colours of the Union flag. The £900,000 paint job caused controversy not least because of the price tag, but Downing Street insisted it was money well spent. No longer would the Prime Minister have to fly around in a drab grey plane he labelled "boring", instead he would have all the flash and panache of a British Airways look-a-like.  Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden and Johnson's personal spokesperson both claimed the plane would play a rol...

THE SNP have warned the Better Together band “is being tuned up” after it emerged a new five-step plan by Boris Johnson’s government to stop independence has been shared with former Labour prime minister Gordon Brown. The new proposals were drawn up amid mounting concern in Downing Street about support for independence and increasing demands in Northern Ireland for a border poll. They have come forward from a special Union committee, chaired by Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove, which has been set up in addition to a “Union Unit” at Number 10. The committee met last week ...

Collision course: Sturgeon ups ante and points to Scottish Govt staging its own Indyref2 if Johnson keeps saying no THE Union of the United Kingdom is today facing mounting pressure on two fronts as opinion polls suggest that a majority of people in Scotland and Northern Ireland now want referendums on their membership of it within the next five years. The snapshots, commissioned by The Sunday Times, come as the SNP has set itself on a constitutional collision course with the UK Government, announcing that if, as expected, it gets a majority in May’s Scottish parliamentary elections, th...