While some polls suggest a slim majority of people in Scotland now support independence from the rest of the United Kingdom, in an interview Boris Johnson pressed the case for the whole country to work together to tackle the coronavirus and its economic impact. The pandemic and Brexit have badly strained the ties that bind the kingdom's constituent parts - England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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