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Nicola Sturgeon during FMQs today

NICOLA STURGEON refused to back Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s new Brexit plan today as she ridiculed Tory infighting in a fiery exchange during First Minister’s Questions.

Addressing the First Minister, interim Scottish Conservative leader Jackson Carlaw said: “We are at the 11th hour.

“There is a need on all sides to compromise if we are going to reach a negotiated settlement, yet the record of this SNP government has been to fail to do so.

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