NICOLA STURGEON would hand powers she is demanding from Westminster “back to Mr Juncker,” former SNP deputy leader Jim Sillars said yesterday.

Mr Sillars, a leftwinger and eurosceptic, accused his party of “acting like a fifth column for the EU.”

He said SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford’s outrage at the silencing of Scottish MPs that led to a walkout from Prime Minister’s Questions last week was “real and justified.”