Now that Brexit has become the defining doctrinal obsession of a Conservative party leadership election conducted in the shadow of the Brexit party, even less attention is being paid to those possible consequences, especially in England. She intermittently mouthed decent words about the union while consistently following a Brexit policy that made the words sound like lies. The partial recovery of the Tory party in Scotland in 2017 has done very little to change this default setting. Ruth Davidson, the Scottish Tory leader, has struggled to persuade most leadership candidates to temper their approach in ways that help Scottish Tories. Consumed by Brexit, the Conservative party has allowed its thinking on the union to drift into reactionary English nationalism.

Source: The Guardian June 26, 2019 17:20 UTC