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“change course”. She tweeted: “Regardless of views on independen­ce, we should all condemn the scenes and call on Spain to change course before someone is seriously hurt.”

And she criticised the response from the UK Foreign Office, calling it “shamefully weak” saying a “true friend would tell Spain what happened today was wrong”.

The FCO said in a statement: “The referendum is a matter for the Spanish government and people. We want to see Spanish law and the Spanish constituti­on respected and the rule of law upheld.”

Hundreds of people protested outside the Spanish embassy in Edinburgh yesterday in support of the region’s controvers­ial referendum.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn condemned the “shocking police violence” and urged Prime Minister Theresa May to raise concerns with her Spanish counterpar­t.

But Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson last night rejected opposition calls for the UK

“Regardless of views on independen­ce, we should all condemn the scenes and call on Spain to change course before someone is seriously hurt”

NICOLA STURGEON

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