FIRST Minister Nicola Sturgeon turned her election charm offensive on the Scottish TUC with promises of fairness, equality and a fight against austerity yesterday in her speech at Congress in Ayr.

With her party riding high in the Scottish polls, she told delegates that the SNP would “never, never, never in a month of Sundays support a Tory government” in Westminster.

Instead she said SNP MPs elected in May would “use our influence to make sure the Tories are replaced, not by a Tory-lite Labour but something better, bolder and more radical.”