The National – Scottish Lib Dem candidate gave £25k to Boris
The National’s lead story is an exclusive on Lib Dem candidate and businessman Angus MacDonald who donated £25,000 to the Conservatives under Boris Johnson. MacDonald hopes to rekindle the Lib Dem vote in their former Highland heartlands by taking the new Inverness, Skye and West Ross-shire seat from the SNP, the paper writes. But there are questions about his commitment to his new party’s stated pro-EU stance after The National revealed his previous support for the Tories in the run-up to the 2019 election.
Boris Johnson’s 2019 campaign was famously: “Get Brexit Done.” The LibDems and the SNP were strongly pro-EU.
Elsewhere, the paper reports on the SNP’s John Swinney who kicked off his election campaign yesterday. The paper ponders on whether the election will be an ‘independence vote’.
Support for the SNP has dropped in recent years and there are concerns among the pro-independence media that the SNP could lose to Labour in the upcoming general election.
The front page also reports on the deputy speaker, who the paper says has mocked Scotland’s independence bill.
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