Also: Galloway shakes up Holyrood battle with new unionist alliance; DUP wracked by major rebellion over Stormont reform; and more.
That Johnson’s recent visit was reported as though he were a Governor-General of Imperial India touring the North-West frontier is a bad sign.
Marr challenges the First Minister over the SNP’s record on care home deaths, but she denies that there was “some particular problem” in Scotland.
He also claims Scotland doesn’t have powers it needs to respond to the Covid-19 crisis “in the way that it should”.
The Prime Minister is grilled by LBC on why some businesses are being allowed to re-open ahead of others.
“I didn’t have the knowledge I have now back then,” she responds when asked why mistakes were made.
By deflecting attention from their own record, the row is a huge gift for the SNP – and the stakes are much higher than the 2021 elections.
Also: Welsh Government abandons separate testing app to join UK-run scheme; Gove tries to downplay the Irish Sea border.
With Holyrood elections probably a year away now, Conservatives north of the border need to be prepared for when the campaign starts.
Plus: Sturgeon’s failures as a leader and her successes as a communicator. And: the lobby has a reshuffle.
Also: Kawczynski clashes with colleagues over the future of Welsh devolution; Government capitulates on an Irish Sea border; and more.
A successful test, track and quarantine policy would open the door to local paths out of this national shutdown.
The unique circumstances of the pandemic temporarily forged a common response, but cracks are already appearing and will only deepen.
“This is about the protection of older people who was we know are much more vulnerable to becoming ill and dying.”
In 2016, 38 per cent of voters in Scotland backed Brexit. So why is the Party currently stuck at 23 per cent in the polls for next year’s Holyrood election?