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Gregor Young

SNP MP's perfect response as Ann Widdecombe says Scotland should be 'put aside'

FORMER Tory MP Ann Widdecombe got into a spat on Politics Live after she dismissed the fact prescriptions are free in Scotland.

Widdecombe – who was also a member of the Brexit Party - got into an argument with the SNP’s David Linden when she tried to argue the NHS is not always free at the point of reception.

As she made the point people have to pay for prescriptions, Linden hit back and said this is not the case in Scotland, to which Widdecombe replied “let’s put aside Scotland for a minute and let’s have a grown up debate”.

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