STURGEON TELLS ‘SELF-INTERESTED’ MAY TO
NICOLA STURGEON and Theresa May are set for a face-to-face showdown in Downing Street today – after the First Minister said the Tories had failed to provide “grown-up” leadership on Brexit.
Sturgeon is also due to meet Jeremy Corbyn in a bid to stop the Tory Brexit deal getting through the House of Commons.
Speaking ahead of her visit to London, she said it was time for “grown-up, responsible governance in the public interest”.
Sturgeon added: “This is something which has been sadly lacking to date as the Tory party have continued to put their own interests ahead of the interests of jobs, communities and businesses.”
The Scottish and Welsh First Ministers have accused May of sidelining their concerns and demanded a Downing Street meeting on the details of May’s Brexit deal.
But Scottish Secretary David Mundell has claimed the SNP want May’s Brexit deal to crash to advance their push for independence.
Presenting herself as the dealmaker BY TORCUIL CRICHTON who can marry the SNP’s 35 MPs and other minority parties with Corbyn’s Labour Party, Sturgeon said: “Brexit must not be a false choice between the deal the Prime Minister has presented and the no-deal outcome which even members of her own Cabinet now say would be disastrous.
“It mustn’t be an option between frying pan or fire. It is now incumbent on all of us who oppose that false choice to propose a workable alternative.”
Having shelved plans for a second independence referendum, Sturgeon’s SNP compromise is for continued, permanent single market and customs union membership for the whole of the UK.
She will get short shrift from May, who is wedded to her plan for a temporary customs union until December 2020 and then a new trade deal for the UK outside the single market. Corbyn has positioned Labour to join a version of the EU customs union but is reluctant to keep the UK in the single market.
Sturgeon said the need for a