First Minister Humza Yousaf met with Prime Minister Rishi Sunak last night for the first time since he took over from Nicola Sturgeon almost a month ago. Amongst other things, Yousaf ‘raised concerns’ about ‘UK government attacks on devolution’, including recent comments from a certain Lord David Frost in the Telegraph, who wrote: ‘Not only must no more powers be devolved to Scotland, it’s time to reverse the process.’ But it’s pro-Union politicians who are really up in arms after the Tory peer’s calls that some of the Scottish government’s devolved powers be rolled back. The former Brexit negotiator’s clumsy intervention has been a lifeline to Yousaf in the middle of his crisis.
Who’d have imagined a Tory peer would have been among those helping Yousaf survive the crisis in which he finds himself?
A basic rule of politics is that one should never interrupt an opponent when he is making a mistake.
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