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Here’s Nicola: can Boris Johnson stop Scottish independence?

How can Boris deal with the looming question of IndyRef2?

15 August 2020

9:00 AM

15 August 2020

9:00 AM

Boris Johnson is far from being the first prime minister to holiday in Scotland. David Cameron used to slip off the radar at his father-in-law’s estate on the Isle of Jura, and plenty of other Conservative premiers have enjoyed a Scottish August on the grouse moor. But Johnson may be the first to holiday north of the Tweed as a matter of political calculation and convenience.

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