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Boris was right: Scottish devolution has been a disaster

17 November 2020

6:00 PM

17 November 2020

6:00 PM

Boris Johnson says devolution has been a ‘disaster’. This has the rare quality for a Boris statement of being true but he, or rather the Scottish Tories, will be made to pay a political price for it. Barely had the contents of the Prime Minister’s remarks in a Zoom chat with northern MPs been reported than Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross was at the Twitter barricades:

Devolution has not been a disaster.

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