Lord Frost’s call to roll back devolution handed SNP ammunition
One of Boris Johnson’s former ministers handed the SNP ammunition by calling for devolution to be “rolled back”, a former senior Tory adviser has said after a poll showed that people in Scotland want Holyrood to have more powers.
It found that 51 per cent of people want an enhanced Scottish parliament either through the transfer of more responsibilities from Westminster or through independence.
In April, Lord Frost, who was Johnson’s chief Brexit negotiator, called on Conservative ministers to make clear that they would “review and roll back some currently devolved powers” if they were returned to government at the next general election.
This provoked a reaction among Tories at Holyrood and prompted Adam Morris, director of Shorthand PR and former head of media