Conservative UK government is "becoming quite overpowering", Nicola Sturgeon has said.
05.04.2021 - 18:21 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Prime Minister and the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, will join the campaign trail in a bid to boost the Tories flatline polling.
Speaking to reporters on Monday, Ross suggested senior members of the UK Government would take part in his faltering campaign which has seen the Scottish Tories fail to move the dial in opinion polling despite SNP splits and the success of the covid vaccine roll-out.Ross said that it had not yet been decided how Westminster ministers would take part in the campaign but that
.Conservative UK government is "becoming quite overpowering", Nicola Sturgeon has said.
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Ross said: “If it was possible for him to come up north of the border that would be great, but I’m not putting any pressure on him.” He added: “He is also leading the UK effort against a global pandemic and I think people understand in this strange election campaign in terms of the restrictions that we’ve all got to deal with, that it may not be as easy as for the Prime Minister to come.”The move came as Downing Street issued a joint statement from the British and Indian governments cancelling
Holyrood election will again see a majority of MSPs returned who support independence. Her fellow Greens co-leader Patrick Harvie has said that in those circumstances, the continued “refusal by the UK to even talk about this would be politically untenable”.
Ian Blackford said “we’ll see you in court” as he claimed the Conservative Government’s legal move to override Holyrood legislation trampled on the rights of children. But Boris Johnson said it a was “complete nonsense” to say that a UK government’s decision to refer two bills passed by Holyrood unanimously to the Supreme Court were political attack.
Boris Johnson rebuffs her demand, the next Holyrood term could be marked by a constitutional standoff.
First Minister to give the go-ahead for a referendum, but Sturgeon said she believes UK Government discussions have moved on.
Douglas Ross was quizzed about the Prime Minister travelling north to participate in the Holyrood election that takes place on May 6. Just last month the part-time assistant referee revealed Johnson would join him in the lead-up to polling day.
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