Sturgeon criticises Boris Johnson over 'missed opportunity'

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The Prime Minister has been touring Scotland’s renewable energy farms this week, ahead of the COP26 summit due to take place in Glasgow on November 12. Ms Sturgeon reached out to Mr Johnson inviting him to her private residence at Bute House in Edinburgh.

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She posted her invitation letter on Twitter, which read: “This might offer us an opportunity… for a discussion on the current Covid situation and our respective plans for recovery – focussing, obviously, on the areas where it is important that our governments work together.”

In response, Boris politely declined and instead said: “I am keen to arrange an in-person meeting with you and the other first ministers and deputy first minister to build on the constructive discussions we had earlier this summer.”

A huge 93 percent of voters said Boris made the right choice in rejecting the invitation, whilst 6 percent said it was the wrong choice to make in a poll of 6,159 people held between 5pm August 5 and 3pm August 6.

One voter commented: “She does nothing but try to break up the UK.”

Another congratulated the Prime Minister: “Well done Boris!”

371 people said Boris should not have rejected Sturgeon’s offer to meet in Scotland.

Ms Sturgeon has been pushing the agenda of achieving Scottish independence ever since she began as First Minister in 2014, but the UK Government has continually rejected her wish to be granted a referendum.

In the Mail on Sunday, Michael Gove wrote that it is not the right “moment” for a Scottish independence referendum and that there will not be one until “there is clearly a settled will in favour of a referendum” amongst the Great British public.

However, some readers in the comments section came to the defence of Ms Sturgeon.

Sir William Wallace said: “The UK, in its present form, has run its course.

“Political independence for Scotland is the natural next step.”

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When asked whether Boris Johnson is facing Scotland’s calls for independence head-on, a smaller majority of 63 percent said he is, whilst 22 percent said he is not, and 15 percent were not sure.

Many readers said they thought Nicola Sturgeon had purposefully planned the invitation as a publicity stunt, because it was such short notice and that she knew the Prime Minister would likely decline, making him appear even more unfavourable in the Scottish people’s perspective.

One reader said: “It was a setup, intended to make Boris look like a supplicant to the Queen of Scotland, with a baying mob on tap.”

Another commented: “The PM plans were made months ago. So at the last minute Nicola Sturgeon invites him to a meeting, which he declines, so that she can claim that she has been snubbed.

“This is what she wanted, the whole thing is so transparent.”

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