Roast Tory
IT WAS all supposed to be so glorious. The Scottish Tories, facing annihilation, had planned to spend this election campaign fighting for the union against the dangerous ideas of devolution and independence. On polling day, also the 290th anniversary of the signing of the Act of Union between England and Scotland, the Tories would probably have gone down to defeat anyway. But the fight would have been no less noble or principled for that. Instead the Tories' Scottish campaign has been engulfed by a tide of scandal and factional strife even before it started.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Roast Tory”
From the April 5th 1997 edition
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