Alister Jack

Boris Johnson “certainly won’t be resigning” amid accusations of sleaze against him and his government, a minister has insisted. Scottish secretary Alister Jack was peppered with questions about the PM, including over the controversial refurbishment of his Downing Street flat and why he is not due to visit Scotland ahead of next week’s Holyrood elections. SNP […]

Boris Johnson’s plan to save the United Kingdom has been entitled ‘Project Love’, according to one of his top ministers. According to Scottish secretary Alister Jack, in an interview with Politico, there will be a “slow-burn effort” from Number 10 to show Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland what the family of nations means to them.  […]

Scottish secretary Alister Jack has hailed the vaccination programme against the virus as being a success for the UK. The minister claimed Scotland would still be in the “vice-like grip” of coronavirus if it had followed SNP advice on vaccinations. He insisted: “Had we followed the SNP’s advice on vaccines and waited for the flat-footed […]

Boris Johnson has launched a new union strategy committee which has been described as a “step up” from the government’s union unit that it replaces. The committee was set up after Oliver Lewis left his position as the head of Downing Street’s Union unit last week. Lewis, a veteran of the Vote Leave campaign, had been […]

The SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford has claimed proponents of Brexit were guilty of an “enormous con job” to fishermen after analysis of the deal showed stocks for Scotland will fall. Speaking to the BBC’s Good Morning Scotland programme, Blackford said: “We’ve been told by the Tories over the course of the last four and […]