SNP focus on PM not Indyref2 in last week

NICOLA Sturgeon is to shift the focus of the SNP’S campaign away from a new independence referendum and on to Boris Johnson for the last week of the election.

The First Minister will today urge people to vote SNP “to Stop Brexit, to protect our NHS and to lock Boris Johnson out of Downing Street”.

An overnight trail of the SNP leader’s speech made no direct reference to Indyref2, an issue which has become the focus of Tory attacks.

After a lack of large donations to the SNP, Ms Sturgeon will also set off on a campaign bus rather than the helicopter of the 2015 and 2017 elections.

Speaking ahead of events in Edinburgh West and Ochil & South Perthshire, she said: “People in Scotland have the right to determine their own future – instead of Boris Johnson deciding it for them.

“Boris Johnson’s extreme Brexit is the biggest threat to the NHS since it was founded.

“He must be stopped next Thursday or it will be open season on Scotland as the Tories start to impose their hardline Brexit scheme.

“If Boris Johnson wins a majority in seven days’ time, Scotland will be dragged out of Europe within just eight weeks.”

Appealing for tactical votes, she went on: “In every seat that the Tories hold in Scotland, the SNP are the main challengers.

“No other party can defeat them in Scotland, so to stop Boris Johnson I urge voters to unite around the SNP.

“We have seven days to escape Brexit, lock Boris Johnson out of office and put Scotland’s future in Scotland’s hands.”