Better hush, Boris

Man who masterminded No campaign in 2014 urges Tory PM to stop playing indy villain as he’s only helping SNP case

- PAUL HUTCHEON

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CAMPAIGNER  McDougall says Union backers must get off the sideliness. Pic Victoria Stewart

BORIS Johnson has been urged to step back from the IndyRef2 frontline by the mastermind of the Better Together campaign.

Blair McDougall said the Prime Minister should stop being the SNP’s “villain” and called for him to recognise the independence debate will be “won or lost” in Scotland.

IndyRef2 is shaping up to be a key issue at May’s Holyrood election after Nicola Sturgeon called for another referendum in the early part of the next term.