Boris Johnson has insisted he is not opposed to devolution, days after he described it as a disaster in Scotland. “Just because I have criticised the performance of devolution does not mean I want to oppose devolution as a concept,” he said. “The key is to have policies to show how devolution can work for Scotland, for the people in Scotland, rather than the SNP obsession with making devolution work against the rest of the UK,” he said. “Zero effort, zero consideration, zero thought, just 10 minutes of hollow nothingness beyond more weasel words of deflection from his blunder in revealing he thinks devolution has been a disaster,” he said. “But where we have an issue is a nationalist government using devolution to further their ambition of independence.

Source: The Guardian November 21, 2020 15:47 UTC