Boris Johnson is expected to visit Scotland within days as senior Tories “panic” over the future of the UK. The Prime Minister wants to address growing support for independence, as shown by recent polls.
01.07.2020 - 12:29 / dailyrecord.co.uk
coronavirus lockdown contained no new money, a senior Scottish Tory has admitted. Andrew Bowie said the cash was already budgeted for one day after the Prime Minister’s speech was slammed as a "damp squib" by the SNP and slated by Labour leader Keir Starmer.
Bowie, Tory MP for West Aberdeenshire and Kincardine, said: "There was no new money, per se, a lot of what we announced yesterday was included in money already allocated. These were projects that were due years from now but are starting now.
.Boris Johnson is expected to visit Scotland within days as senior Tories “panic” over the future of the UK. The Prime Minister wants to address growing support for independence, as shown by recent polls.
would be needed for a “prolonged period”, while the government's chief scientific adviser Sir Patrick Vallance warned that winter would be "a very complex time". At a Downing Street briefing yesterday, where he outlined a new timetable for lifting the remaining lockdown restrictions from August 1, prime minister Boris Johnson said he hoped for "a more significant return to normality from November".
Boris Johnson has said "the Union has proved its worth" during the coronavirus pandemic despite rising support for Scottish independence in recent months.The Prime Minister praised "the might of the UK Treasury" for setting up the furlough scheme that has seen hundreds of thousands of Scots kept in employment during lockdown.Speaking at a Downing Street press conference today, Johnson also claimed there had been "very close collaboration" between the four nations of the UK in responding to the
“power surge” to Scotland as he prepared to publish legislation for a UK internal market to replace the EU Single Market.
SNP works best 'under pressure' as the minority leader in Scotland. Harvie told the PA news agency that the ruling party could 'get lazy' if it formed a majority administration.
coronavirus, Boris Johnson is set to announce later today.The new legislation has divided the government and will not come into force until Friday, July 24 – raising fears over the virus spreading in the next 10 days.It comes more than a week after Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister, announced face coverings would be compulsory in shops in Scotland – rules which came into force on Friday (July 10).As The Guardian reports, only 36% of people in the UK currently wear a face mask in
Sturgeon has blasted reported UK Government plans to hold on to a key economic lever after the Brexit transition period.It has been claimed Prime Minister Boris Johnson will not devolve control over ‘state aid’, which allows Governments to subsidise companies.The First Minister tweeted this morning: “This would be a full scale assault on devolution - a blatant move to erode the powers of the Scottish Parliament in key areas.
theatre industry by the UK government. The promised £1.57 billion of help in a long-awaited rescue package from Boris Johnson has been described as the biggest ever one-off investment in UK culture.
Scottish independence is on the rise as voters back Nicola Sturgeon's response to the global pandemic ahead of Boris Johnson, a new poll has found. The percentage of Scots who say they would vote Yes at a future IndyRef2 now stands at 54 per cent - just one point lower than the total achieved by the No campaign in 2014.
Twitter account claiming to be the Scottish Border has Scots in stitches after tweeting about having an existential crisis and asking "am I real or naw?".The account was set up because Boris Johnson and First Minister Nicola Sturgeon clashed after the PM claimed there is no such thing as a border between England and Scotland.
Nicola Sturgeon wants to "build a wall" between Scotland and England, Jacob Rees-Mogg has claimed. It follows a comment made by Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday that "there is no border between Scotland and England" - which was mocked by the SNP - after Sturgeon failed to rule out "border checks" on English visitors in order to help save lives during the pandemic.
British institutions including the UK Parliament if Boris Johnson continues to block another independence referendum, a senior MP claimed. Pete Wishart said Scotland is at “tipping point” with polls suggesting majority support for leaving the UK.
coronavirus means Leicester is the first city in the UK to be put under a local lockdown in a bid to curb the deadly virus.As pubs, restaurants and cafes get ready to reopen across the nation, residents in the East Midland's city have been told to stay at home.The move is part of what Prime Minister Boris Johnson previously referred to as a "whack-a-mole" strategy of tackling local flare ups.UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the measures will be reviewed in two weeks, but what exactly is a
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coronavirus restrictions. At her briefing yesterday, Sturgeon said there will be "further details on the timing".
coronavirus lockdown measures.
here"The administrations in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland hold responsibility for their own lockdown restrictions and they will respond to the united view of the Chief Medical Officers at their own pace, based on their own judgement, but all parts of the UK are now travelling in the same direction and we will continue to work together to ensure that everyone in our country gets the support they need."Thanks to our progress, we can now go further and safely ease the lockdown in England."At