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He can tell one dairy cow from another just by looking at their udders.

He can not only explain the offside rule, he is paid to enforce it.

But he's either man who can save the union, who can persuade scots, not to give Nicholas

Durgin and the S&P another thumping majority at Hoi Rude and a mandate to hold another

referendum.

Every farmer, referee and Tory MP Douglas Ross was handpicked by Boris Johnson to be

leader of the Scottish Conservatives just months after he quit a junior job in Johnson's

government in protest at Dominic Cummings Drive to Barnard Castle.

Is that the sort of independence which can persuade scots not to embrace independence

for their country?

Douglas Ross, welcome to political thinking.

Thanks, Nick.

I am intrigued by what I see, but you might tell me I'm wrong as a contradiction.

Between the life of a political leader, which you now are, a kind of team captain, a player

on the pitch, and being a neutral official or referee, which you do professionally, who's

not permitted to take sides.

Is there a contradiction?

Douglas Ross, no, not at all.

But a neutral official in referee will also correct people if they've made a mistake,

and I have to correct you very early on when you said I was handpicked by the Prime Minister

of Boris Johnson.

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