WOULD you believe it, another damning comment from Boris Johnson's past has resurfaced.
The Scotsman has brought back to light comments from the current Tory leadership frontrunner published in The Spectator in 2005 saying it would be "inconceivable" to have a Scottish prime minister.
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On the possibility of Gordon Brown replacing Tony Blair, he wrote: "[It] would be utterly outrageous, not just because he is a gloomadon-popping, interfering, high-taxing complicator of life, but mainly because he is a Scot, and government by a Scot is just not conceivable in the current constitutional context."
He accused Brown of making speeches about "Britishness" and "British values" due to his "personal political disability as a Scottish MP".
Just a year earlier, as editor of The Spectator, Johnson had authorised the publication of a "satirical" poem calling Scots a "verminous race" who should be exterminated.
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So, all in all, it's fairly safe to say Boris Johnson didn't think a Scot should be prime minister.
The First Minister had the perfect response. Keeping it short and sweet, Nicola Sturgeon tweeted: "I think he’ll probably find we think the same about him."
I think he’ll probably find we think the same about him. https://t.co/p1pHbolEOu
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) June 17, 2019
Judging by the Scottish Tories themselves having previously launched Operation ARSE to stop Johnson entering No 10, that sentiment seems a sound bet.
The question, of course, is whether Johnson still has similar views now to those he evidently held around 2005.
Readers, we'll let you make that decision for yourselves...
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