Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak are now self-isolating, after initially saying they would not be
THESE are contradictory times. Boris Johnson celebrates “Freedom Day” locked away in Covid isolation (“PM in rapid U-turn on dodging self-isolation after angry backlash”, The Herald, July 19). Ruth Davidson retires from representative politics on family grounds, only to be wheeched away to a feather-bed in London, where she will attack those in Scotland who still put in the "efforts, hours and travel” for the sake of our democracy.
Jill Stephenson (Letters, July 19), as a historian, must be aware that Scotland lost much of its indigenous service, banking and manufacturing industry in the 20th century when directly ruled from London. We also lost huge numbers of working-age people at the same time, something which has been assuaged by devolved government. Mr Johnson apparently wants to solve UK inequalities (the largest in the developed world), by devolving power – even though he privately thinks devolution is a “disaster”. You couldn’t make it up, although I think that is exactly how the Westminster Government operates.