The Spectator finds a Scottish minister who can count and calls it a scandal

Spectator Australia · Philip Patrick · Thursday 30 April 2026

The Spectator finds a Scottish minister who can count and calls it a scandal

Philip Patrick discovers an SNP minister advocating for migration in a country with a shrinking population, and treats basic demographic arithmetic like a constitutional outrage.

The Spectator's discovered Scotland might want more migrants and treats it like Sturgeon's protégé just confessed to arson. Mairi McAllan says the country needs people to fill the houses, run the wards, work the farms — Patrick reckons that's lambast-worthy. Mate, Scotland's losing population the way a leaky bucket loses water, and the Spectator's writing think pieces about the bucket.

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