THE National has launched a brand new billboard campaign across some of Scotland's biggest cities.

The digital billboards have begun appearing across locations in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen, highlighting key messages that the Tories would rather you forget.

One billboard highlights a poem published by Boris Johnson during his time as editor of The Spectator magazine calling Scots a "verminous race" and for Hadrian's wall to be rebuilt to "pen them in a ghetto on the other side".

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Another shines the spotlight on Douglas Ross's inability to inability to multi-task in answering a question about a potential independence referendum at the STV leaders' debate.

In response to a question by STV political editor Colin McKay asking why the Tories can't look at Covid recovery and a second Scottish independence referendum together, Ross said: "You just can't Colin."

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National editor Callum Baird welcomed the new campaign, commenting: "The Tory party might want to gloss over mounting accusations of sleaze and Boris Johnson's historic disdain for the Scottish people, but The National will not.

"While Unionists might want to kick the indyref2 can down the road, The National will continue to make the case for an independent Scotland going into this important Holyrood election and beyond."

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The billboards are up at locations across Glasgow, Edinburgh and Aberdeen and please let us know what you think of them.

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