Scottish MPs don’t want to lead Britain. They want to sabotage it

Corbyn flunked it. Yet again. And his failure to skewer the government left the field open to the SNP. Speaker Bercow seemed to collude with this arrangement and he gave the Nats six opportunities to quiz the prime minister. Angus Robertson appeared to relish the battle. His great grey face was already brimming with fury as he demanded that Mrs May reach ‘an agreement’ with Holyrood before triggering Article 50. By ‘agreement’ he meant that Scotland must stay within the single market while the rest of Britain gets out. Which is hardly sensible. Like putting a zebra-crossing on a runway. But the SNP isn’t interested in good sense or compromise. Disharmony and strife are its objectives. Robertson thundered that Mrs May had refused to deliver an ‘agreement’. So, he quivered, she would be requited with a Scottish referendum.

The SNP’s Mike Weir got up and complained that insufficient ‘respect’ had been shown for Scotland’s predicament.