Remember those Tory posters that put a tiny Ed Miliband in Alex Salmond’s coat pocket? Well, it’s only five months since the general election, but Nicola Sturgeon doesn’t seem all that keen to put Jeremy Corbyn in her handbag. She seemed to suggest that she had given up on being able to work with the new Labour leader, saying:
‘You know, there is much that I hoped the SNP and Jeremy Corbyn could work together on. But over these last few weeks, it has become glaringly obvious that he is unable to unite his party on any of the big issues of our day.’
She described Labour as ‘unreliable, unelectable and unable to stand up to the Tories’ and made a point of contrasting these divisions with the unity of the SNP in Westminster: something that has impressed and rather intimidated MPs in all other parties.
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