Thread by @Staedtler

For once it was a Marr show worth watching, and I learnt many things.
That Michael Gove is going to challenge for the Tory leadership, very likely some time this autumn once the covid vaccine is fully pegged

We also saw Nicola Sturgeon doing the right thing and keep calling it a landslide.
Everyone in Scotland understands the voting system, and they know perfectly well the SNP won an overwhelming landslide. Most people in England probably don't

Gove seems to recognise the problem there. You can't keep telling English people that the SNP didn't win a majority, when the voters in Scotland know they did.
It's not the English you have to persuade.

Gove also seems to recognise that the SNP is going to have a referendum this parliament. But he's also a government minister at the moment and he can't directly contradict government policy.

But as UK government is no longer sustainable, it also tells you that Johnson is going to have to accept a referendum or resign.
It's very unlikely that Johnson can accept such a referendum without his government collapsing.

We also know that the longer the Tories obstruct a referendum, the likelier it is that the Scots vote for independence when the referendum comes.

So we can be fairly confident of a couple of things. Scotland is going to have another referendum. And Johnson is going to resign.

I think what Scotland did on Thursday is sack Boris Johnson.
We can only imagine what the English make of that. Me, I think this country ace.