'Anti-Scottish' Boris Johnson driving support for independence, claims ex-Labour leader

polarised opinions about Wales’ future,He spoke as a new poll showed a dramatic rise in support for Welsh independence to nearly 40 per cent.Drakeford said: “I do think the effect of the pandemic and the last 12 months has been to polarise opinion in Wales about the way it should be governed.“What we have to do – to quote a Conservative member of the Senedd, David Melding – is we have to recognise that the union as it is, is over.

EXCLUSIVE: Sky’s buzzy series on British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has found its latest protagonists in the shape of Elementary actress Ophelia Lovibond and Brexit: The Uncivil War star Simon Paisley Day.

Labour leader said the Government has not “secured our borders in the way we should have done” after the new strain was detected in six travellers, three of whom came to Scotland, before the February quarantine rules were introduced.An enhanced contact tracing effort is under way after three Scottish residents tested positive for the new strain after flying into Aberdeen from Brazil, via Paris and London.Other passengers who were on the same flight from London are now being contacted.Starmer

Downing Street's Union Unit chief after Johnson's controversial visit to Scotland at the end of January.

It's been a tough few weeks for you, old chap - accused of shredding ancient books and furniture at Chequers, cocking your leg in inappropriate places, and dominating the time of one of Downing Street's official photographers...

It's Kenneth Branagh as you've never seen him before. For an actor who has donned insane mustaches (as detective Hercule Poirot) and a wide array of Shakespearean costumes, the first still of him as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in Michael Winterbottom's TV drama This Sceptred Isle is perhaps Branagh at his most unrecognizable.

60-year-old actor will play the British Prime Minister in the new Sky Atlantic drama.The five-part series will chart the events surrounding the Prime Minister, the government, and the country in the face of the first wave of the global pandemic.Kenneth’s casting as Bojo was first announced last month, and now the first look image of him as the PM shows his utter transformation into the 56-year-old politician.Kenneth has swapped his neatly trimmed brown hair for Boris’ trademark wild blonde locks

Sky has released a first-look image of Kenneth Branagh as British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in its upcoming Michael Winterbottom series This Sceptred Isle.

caused uproar last year when he dismissed the opening of the Scottish Parliament as Tony Blair's "biggest mistake".Devolution - which meant power was taken from Westminster and handed to devolved governments in Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast - was a key policy introduced by the New Labour government in 1997.It was bitterly opposed by many Conservatives at the time and suspicion has lingered that Boris Johnson remained against it.But the Tory leader has now rowed back on his comments and insisted

independence even further.

Boris Johnson has sacked his top adviser on saving the Union, topping off a torrid Scottish week for the Prime Minister that saw him savaged for visiting a Livingston vaccine plant at the centre of a covid outbreak. Former Scottish Tory MP Luke Graham was given his marching orders the day after Johnson returned from his controversial Scottish trip last Thursday, but the sacking has only been confirmed now.

the Reformer the visit was to help the Prime Minister be “accessible” during a national emergency, and during his stop he spoke to troops setting up the centre and volunteers there.