Scottish secretary takes jab at SNP’s foreign affairs fiasco

Tensions are brewing between Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot and John Swinney’s SNP north of the border. Now Scotland Secretary Ian Murray has hit out at the Nats, urging the Scottish government to ditch their cack-handed foreign affairs efforts and focus on Scotland’s domestic issues instead. It’s not like they’ve already had almost two decades to get started on this, eh?

Murray blasted the SNP government over its financial woes, saying its difficulties were ‘because of the choices [it has] made and [it] should be prioritising the things that are the top priority for the Scottish people’. The Scotland Secretary went on to make a rather direct jibe at the SNP’s Culture Secretary Angus Robertson – whose meeting with the Israeli deputy ambassador last month embroiled the party in yet more controversy, with members taking to social media to slam the group and even cancel their party memberships over the matter.