COMMENT
If the Tories were as high in the polls as the SNP it would seem unlikely they would still be calling to delay the Holyrood election DESPITE the fact we are still awaiting the first Scottish opinion poll following the British Government’s last-minute Brexit deal, it ought to be obvious enough that Johnson’s shoddy deal has not united the Scottish nation in grateful acceptance of Brexit, far less re-assured Scotland that this Conservative Government has Scottish interests at heart. Notwithstanding the plaintive calls from the Scottish Tories for us all to get behind the deal now that it’s a fait accompli, popular anger in Scotland at what the Tories have done seems only set to intensify as the realities of being outside the European single market and customs union and deprived of our previous right of freedom of movement manifest themselves.