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Boris Johnson’s trip to Scotland went as well as you’d expect – our 11 favourite reactions

Oonagh Keating. Updated July 24th, 2020

Just a couple of days after the Parliamentary Conservative Party pushed through legislation allowing Westminster to go over the heads of the devolved UK assemblies to maintain a single UK internal market, the PM headed up to Scotland to press the case for the Union – not the European one, obviously.

Johnson has a history of insulting Scotland and the Scots, not least when he published this defamatory poem.

Needless to say, the visit didn’t go well, with boos and jeers from crowds, and no meeting with the First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

Here’s how the brilliant Janey Godley imagined his press address in the middle of the countryside might have gone.

That’s right – he spoke to the press by a field on a remote country road – as you do when you’re having a normal one.

Twitter didn’t pull any punches.

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Finally, we really hope Nicola Sturgeon takes up this suggestion from @davemacladd.

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