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‘Project Love’ — Boris Johnson’s plan to save the union
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Apr 15, 2021 06:55pm |
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| Category | General |
| Author | Emilio Casalicchio |
| News Date | Thursday, April 15, 2021 01:25:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | LONDON — The U.K. is under strain and Boris Johnson wants to fix it with love.
The British prime minister will take his usual approach of aggressive optimism, and a heavy splash of cash, to counter the fast-growing pressures that threaten to crack the union apart. Scotland is again threatening to break free from Westminster. Violence — fueled in part by tensions over Brexit — has broken out in Northern Ireland. Even Wales is seeing a surge in nationalist support.
Johnson’s solution: “Project Love” — according to Alister Jack, the U.K.’s secretary of state for Scotland and one of the three territorial ministers interviewed for this article.
Like his counterparts in charge of Westminster’s relations with Wales and Northern Ireland, Jack is aware that he’s taken office at a moment when remaining part of the U.K. could use a little hard selling.
“What we're doing is strengthening the union; that's the policy across Whitehall,” Jack said. “We recognize that there are many, many great benefits to our family of nations and maybe we don't trumpet them enough.” |
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