Separation Is No Solution for Scotland ; Conservative Mp and Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families [Scot Region]

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IT is the little things that make you think something is changing. My colleague Chris Grayling recently flew up to Scotland on party business. Alighting from the plane at Prestwick Airport, he was shocked to find that police wanted to check his passport. Small beer perhaps, but I believe a sign of how Scotland is changing under the SNP - and, as a Scot, it worries me.

It is not the only example. Since 2007, relations between the British Government under Gordon Brown and the Scottish Executive under Alex Salmond have been strained. For ten months at the height of the recession, they didn't meet. According to the head of counter intelligence at the Met, Alex Salmond had a 'hissy fit' over who had control over the investigation into the Glasgow Airport bombing, the British Government or the Scottish Executive. Discord, dissension, distrust - all creating an impression of a Scotland that is hard done by. It is the politics of grievance, cynically exploited for separatist gain.

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Separation Is No Solution for Scotland ; Conservative Mp and Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families [Scot Region]

This gives a terrible impression of Scotland to the world. Instead of an outward-looking, modern nation, people are being shown a Scotland based around Alex Salmond's narrow nationalism. That is not how I want Scotland to be seen on the world stage. After all, the SNP's handling of the release of the Lockerbie bomber ...

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