UK coronavirus live: Johnson claims Covid crisis would have been ‘disaster’ for Scotland if it had been independent
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Sturgeon says she would have been willing to meet with Boris Johnson if he had asked for a meeting.
She says she thinks she last spoke to him on the day of the knife attack in Glasgow (on 26 June).
Q: The PM says the coronavirus crisis has shown what can be achieved by the might of the UK. Is he right?
No, says Sturgeon. She says she thinks he has just been making a point about where power lies.
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