If Boris Johnson is serious about helping Ukraine, the most resolute action he can take is at home
The prospect of war in our continent is more than enough to avert our gaze from the latest Whitehall troubles.
However, a prime minister who has found it so hard to speak the truth throughout his career surprised us all with a hard dose of it when he stood before parliament last week to address the situation in Ukraine, saying: “Ukraine asks for nothing except to be allowed to live in peace and to seek her own alliances, as every sovereign country has a right to do.” It was a sentiment echoed by the leader of the opposition, by my own party’s Westminster group leader, Ian Blackford MP, and by every other SNP MP who responded to the statement.
Nicola Sturgeon is first minister of Scotland and leader of the Scottish National party
