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People called the police to report Boris Johnson for his trip to Scotland

People called the police to report Boris Johnson for his trip to Scotland

Sweating about an Independence Referendum 2.0 or simply desperate to see the Highlands? Regardless, Boris Johnson deemed it necessary to visit Scotland this week, but it seems to have made a fair few people unhappy.

How unhappy? Enough to make it a legal matter by getting in touch with the actual Scottish Police.

A number of people have taken matters into their own hands, deeming the Prime Minister’s latest cross-country visit a break of lockdown rules.

It might be another nail in the coffin of the already rocky relationship between the two. After all, the PM has said some unshakably questionable things about Scotland in his time.

How word got around is unknown, but Police Scotland did confirm that people were getting in touch with them and will not be taking it any further.

In a statement they said: "We have received a small number of complaints regarding prime minister Boris Johnson's visit to Scotland.

"This is a working visit in his official capacity as prime minister and we are policing the event appropriately."

Earlier this week First Minister Nicola Sturgeon insisted the PM’s upcoming visit was “not essential”, suggesting it was in contradiction with the expectation that Britain’s politicians “lead by example”.

“We’re living in a global pandemic right now. Every day I look down the camera and say… don’t travel unless it’s really essential, work from home if you possibly can."

Inside the Commons has been a different story, with Keir Starmer offering his support for the trip.

Downing Street has also insisted that it is important for the prime minister to be "visible and accessible" during the pandemic.

Visible he was, bounding from testing centres to hospitals across the country.

Members of the SNP - including it’s deputy leader Keith Brown - suggested the visit was more about the “panic” felt within the tories about a “Disunited Kingdom”.

The PM dismissed talks of another referendum as “completely irrelevant now to the concerns of most people, who I think want us to beat this pandemic".

Looks like the discord between Johnson and Sturgeon isn’t going away any time soon.

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