Our Scottish campaign will encourage English Nationalism unless the voice of England is heard

This is an extract from a speech delivered by Tory MP Conor Burns at a Conservative association dinner in Chris Grayling’s constituency tonight:

It would be extraordinary if I did not mention what is going on in Scotland this evening.

I represent, as self-evidently, does the Lord Chancellor beside me a constituency in England.

I have watched events in Scotland through that prism of course.

But I have also watched as a staunch Unionist. I have always given equal weight to the full title of our great Party: Conservative AND Unionist. I was born and spent the early years of my life in Northern Ireland into a Catholic family with broadly romantic nationalist sentiment. Yet I knew early in my life that I rejected nationalism and embraced Unionism.