First Minister: May and Davidson are cold and over-rated
IT is ‘impossible to get any human connection’ with Theresa May, according to Nicola Sturgeon in a scathing personal attack on the Prime Minister.
The First Minister said she finds it ‘very frustrating’ to meet Mrs May.
She added the Conservatives should never have built their General Election campaign around their leader as her personality was ‘not capable of carrying’ it.
Miss Sturgeon made the comments in an interview with the New Statesman in which she also lashed out at Ruth Davidson for failing to do her homework, as she suggested the Scottish Tory leader is overrated.
During the June election campaign, Miss Sturgeon was often photographed with small children and in communities.
Mrs May was criticised for her approach and for failing to take part in TV debates.
However, both suffered disappointment at the polls, with the SNP losing 21 MPs while the Tories lost their Commons majority.
In her interview, Miss Sturgeon said the ‘Theresa May the country ended up seeing in the election was the one I’ve been dealing with for however long she’s been Prime Minister’.
Comparing the current UK leader to her predecessor David Cameron, she said: ‘This is a woman who sits in a meeting where it’s just the two of you and reads from a script.
‘I found it very frustrating because David Cameron, whose politics and mine are very far apart, always managed to have a personal rapport.’
Miss Sturgeon recalled a meeting with Mrs May this year, claiming it was ‘impossible to get any human connection’ with her.
She said: ‘I remember just after May came back from America, when she’d held Trump’s hand, she’d also been to Turkey and somewhere else. This was the Monday morning.
‘We sit down, it’s literally just the two of us, and I say, “‘You must be knackered”. She said, “No, I’m fine”. And it was as if I’d insulted her.’
On Miss Davidson, she said: ‘I think Ruth, for all the many strengths people think she might have, often doesn’t do her homework very well. ‘From time to time, Ruth slips up on that… quite a bit actually.’ Last night, a Tory source, said: ‘For someone who hides behind a big book of facts and figures at FMQs every week, Nicola Sturgeon has a cheek to talk about anyone’s homework.’ Despite the attack, Miss Sturgeon admitted that on a ‘human level’ she has sympathy for Mrs May, saying she is in a ‘pretty intolerable’ position after the election.