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The National (Scotland)
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Stewart Ward

Keir Starmer urged to push for no confidence vote by the SNP

LABOUR leader Sir Keir Starmer is being urged to push for a vote of no confidence in the Tories – with SNP Westminster leader Ian Blackford vowing he will work with other opposition parties to try to make this happen in a bid to force an early General Election.

Blackford has written to Starmer – who as the leader of the opposition in the House of Commons is the only MP who can submit a formal vote of no confidence motion.

The SNP MP insisted that opposition leaders “cannot stand idly by as the Tories attempt to impose their third prime minister in the space of three months”.

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