The prime minister has urged voters to use next month’s general election to call a halt to Nicola Sturgeon’s plans for a second independence referendum.
Boris Johnson was speaking as he visited a Diageo distillery near Elgin on Thursday afternoon. Mr Johnson said only a vote for the Scottish Conservatives would stop the SNP’s plans to “break up the UK”. He was adamant that only the Scottish Conservatives who could “keep our fantastic United Kingdom together and prevent another referendum next year”.
He added: “We are the party that is saying come on, let’s get together as a whole UK, let’s get Brexit done, get this thing over the line and then get on with bringing our great country together and unleashing the potential of the whole UK.
Mr Johnson said the other choice for prime minister was Jeremy Corbyn, who he claimed had “done a deal” with the SNP that would “get him into power in exchange for agreeing to another referendum even although the last one was meant to be once in a generation”.
He also used his visit to pledge to review the amount of tax paid on a bottle of whisky, which the Conservatives said would allow it to “develop a system which provides better support for domestic drink producers”.
