As Boris Johnson heads for No 10, I have an awful sense of déjà vu. Are we entering another age of resentment? Think back to the long years in Scotland when Margaret Thatcher was prime minister — another leader regarded with instinctive hostility — and a sort of political fog descends. Industries were collapsing, jobs were lost, and it was all the fault of that woman, presiding over a booming economy in London and the southeast, where young men in red braces made millions in the City as steel and coal and shipping slid back in Scotland, and the dole queue lengthened. Scots voted Labour time and again, but found themselves saddled with the Tories. Many of the Thatcher years were spent blaming a system
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Scots will have to learn to get on with new PM
Boris Johnson’s reputation may be toxic but we will gain nothing if we hide in a tartan bunker
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