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NOT WELL RECEIVED: Boris Johnson is said to have described Scottish self-government as a disaster, which is not well received by colleagues in Scotland’s Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s party. Photograph: Duncan McGlynn / AP / NTB
Boris Johnson is having a bad time after saying that self-government in Scotland has been a disaster and Tony Blair’s biggest mistake.
The comments are said to have come in an online meeting with Conservative MPs from the north of England on Monday. Both the opposition Labor Party and the SNP’s Scottish nationalists have criticized the British prime minister for the statement, the BBC reports.
Social Affairs Minister Robert Jenrick tries to help the boss by saying that Johnson “has always supported self-government.”
– Very dangerous
– What you mean, and what I agree with, is that self-government in Scotland has facilitated more separatism and nationalism in the form of the SNP, and that it is trying to break the union, says Jenrick on breakfast television.
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– Anyone who, like the Prime Minister, loves Britain, wants to hold the country together and believes that this is very, very dangerous and a disappointing outcome that we must fight against, continues the minister.
SNP’s Drew Henry says Johnson’s comments “emphasize the contempt that Johnson and the Scottish Tories have for the Scottish people.”
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– What they say in practice is that “it is good that the Scots have autonomy, as long as they vote for the … party we want,” Henry tells the BBC.
Referendum
Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland gained partial autonomy in the late 1990s, while the London government still dominates defense, foreign policy, and most of the tax system. Scotland already had its own school system and judiciary.
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In 2014, 55.3 percent of Scots voted against secession. Brexit, against which the majority of Scots voted, makes many people want a new referendum on independence.
