SNP leader speaks in Edinburgh as election campaigns take shape, with cheaper visas for NHS staff and year-long maternity pay among parties’ promises
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Sturgeon said her party would not lend support to any party that would stand in the way of a new Scottish independence referendum. It will be intersting to see how this plegde will be compatible with her statement that the SNP MP’s “would seek to form progressive alliance to lock the Tories out of government”.
This is the take of Sky’s Beth Rigby:
Suggesting that she will perhaps accept that the second referendum could be set in the latter stages of a Labour term…. https://t.co/5nEOYzpOPV
This from Sky’s Tamara Cohen:
You’ll be seeing this again in the Tory ads.
Sturgeon says Corbyn and McDonnell’s comments “give us a pretty clear indication of the direction of travel” in having #indyref2
But she says sometimes they have to couch it so it “spares the blushes” of pro-Union Scots Labour