Billions for Scots as Boris Johnson plans spending spree to save the Union
Transport, education and PR war at centre of Prime Minister’s blueprint to thwart Nicola Sturgeon as sources fear ‘awful’ election result
1 May 2021 • 9:00pm
Boris Johnson is planning to spend billions of pounds on new road and rail links and treating Scottish patients on English NHS beds in a desperate counter-offensive against Nicola Sturgeon.
The strategy to save the Union, to be unveiled days after a feared SNP landslide this week, will also offer student exchanges between UK nations and will see diplomats ordered to make the case against Scottish independence in foreign capitals.