Under-fire Liz Truss has sparked a backlash after her "cack handed" attack on Nicola Sturgeon - on the day she was forced into a spectacular U-turn on public sector pay.
The leadership favourite last night claimed the government should "ignore" the Scottish First Minister, branding her an "attention seeker" in an astonishing tirade.
This morning a senior SNP MP accused her of "firing cheap shots to grab headlines", and said the move was "straight out of the Trump playbook".