Back to Scotland, where Rishi Sunak is attending the Scottish Conservatives’ manifesto launch in Edinburgh. Leaving the ongoing betting scandal in London, the Prime Minister walked into another controversy – about the football. Before Sunak launched into his speech he made a point of agreeing with Scottish Tory leader and linesman Douglas Ross that Scotland should have been awarded a penalty in last night’s Euros match. It’s certainly one way to get the Scots on side…
The issue of oil and gas a key dividing line for the Scottish Tories, Sunak highlighted how the positions of other parties on new licences could cost jobs. Slamming Sir Keir’s Labour lot, the PM claimed that Starmer’s army would ‘rather virtue signal to eco-zealots than protect jobs here at home’. Moving quickly onto the SNP, Sunak claimed John Swinney’s Nats were the ‘great pretenders’ of the North East, putting ‘radical environmentalism ahead of pragmatism’.
‘Voting Reform risks letting the nationalists off the hook.
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