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Gerry Hassan
Ruth Davidson's Conservatives: The Scottish Tory Party, 2011-19, 06/2020Book Chapter
A few days after Boris Johnson became Prime Minister, Ian Blackford, the SNP’s Westminster leader, said he had ‘no mandate’ for a ‘No Deal Brexit’ and that he had not ‘been voted in by the people of Scotland. He has to respect Scotland’s wishes to remain in the EU’ (BBC News, 29 July 2019). In a similar vein on social media, pro-independence voices called Johnson ‘an unelected PM’ who represented the ‘continuing undemocratic rule of Westminster Tories over the people of Scotland’ or ‘Prime Minister of Englandshire’. Upon the appointment of Alister Jack as Scottish Secretary, Douglas Chapman, an SNP
