'Focus on your failures in Scotland instead of taking shots at me!' Sir Keir Starmer blasts Nicola Sturgeon after she calls him a pale Tory imitation
Picture: AlamySir Keir Starmer has hit back at Nicola Sturgeon and told her to "roll up her sleeves" and fix Scotland's problems after she described him as a pale imitation of the Tories.
"I don't know how you can go from being the Keir Starmer that me and the SNP worked with over Brexit when Theresa May and Boris Johnson were Prime Minister to be somebody who now won't even countenance the possibility of going back into the single market.
"Can I gently suggest to Nicola Sturgeon that she might want to roll up her sleeves and concentrate on the health service in Scotland," he said.'Britain needs you': Jeremy Hunt calls for early retirees to return to work amid plans to hike retirement age to 68 Sir Keir said there is "no case for going back in" to the EU, but said the deal negotiated under Boris Johnson's government was a bad deal that needed improving.And speaking on the ambulance strikes, he called for NHS reform and said he wanted to fund thousands of new training places by ending the controversial non dom tax status.
Striking workers in nursing and the ambulance services have used their picket lines to draw attention to problems in the health service.
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