IN an article in last weekend’s Sunday Telegraph, Liz Truss (our Foreign Secretary) and Dmytro Kuleba (Ukraine’s Minister of Foreign Affairs) premised their viewpoint on the UK’s relationship with Ukraine by stating that “the partnership between our great nations is based on the fundamental principle that people should be free to choose their own future”.
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This week, as our First Minister sets out to describe the path to an independence referendum – ideally by way of a Section 30 order – she may wish to remind the Prime Minister of this fundamental principle so excellently articulated by his Foreign Secretary.
Mike Power
Inverurie
BORIS is hiding on the international stage to avoid the election flak. There is no end to Tory party tricks. The voters in England will accept anything for the sake of being part of England nationalism royalty and getting rid of refugees. A nation run by idiots.
Glen Peters
Paisley
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