Lifeboat Foundation

I thought they already had one.

Alasdair Gray, the acclaimed Glaswegian writer and artist, penned a phrase now engraved on a wall of the Scottish Parliament: “Work as if you live in the early days of a better nation.”

Michael Gove, the controversial Caledonian Brexiteer, journalist and Conservative politician, has in turn declared his intention to seek the leadership of the UK Tory Party and thus become the Prime Minister, to “reboot democracy” in a new “start-up nation”.

Delivering his leadership pitch today Gove said: “I want this country I love – and which has given me so much – to embrace this opportunity for change with optimism and conviction.”