Britain has become more welcoming to migrants since the Brexit vote and the Union has been strengthened while the “identity politics” of the SNP and Ukip has been “diminished and eclipsed”.
Mr Gove, the Environment Secretary, said Britain is now one of the countries with the “warmest attitude to migration” in Europe and said that the Brexit vote has “boosted liberalism”.
He said that the SNP in Scotland is driven by a “desire to exclude”, adding that support for Scottish nationalism has declined significantly since the vote to leave the European Union.
He said that the SNP has “played with identity politics in order to advance a position”.
In a speech at the Policy Exchange think tank said he...