Tory toff Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused Nicola Sturgeon of "always moaning" as Liz Truss and her supporters ramp up attacks on the First Minister.
The Brexit opportunities minister was adding to the attacks on Sturgeon after Truss, who he is backing in the Tory leadership battle, said people should ignore the elected national leader.
He told Sky News: "When she's waffling on endlessly about having a referendum and going to the Supreme Court and all of this, we need to be saying, hold on you're doing this because you're failing to deliver for the people of Scotland, and the United Kingdom Government will have to deliver for the people of Scotland as well."
Rees-Mogg also accused Sturgeon of wanting to keep Scotland in "permanent lockdown" as the UK Government supported the response to the coronavirus pandemic.
He said: "I think she's very often wrong, she's always moaning and we need to focus on how the Union benefits people."
While, Scottish Tory MSP Murdo Fraser said people should "ignore the manufactured outrage" towards Liz Truss after she referred to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon as an "attention-seeker".
He told the BBC's Good Morning Scotland (GMS) programme that Sturgeon "does not speak for the Scottish majority" on the topic of independence.
Fraser said: "Let's just remember that, according to polling, barely a third, if that, of the Scottish population support an independence referendum on the timescale being proposed by Nicola Sturgeon. He added that Truss "is far more in tune with the majority of Scottish opinion" on the matter.
During a Tory leadership hustings in Exeter on Monday evening Truss branded Sturgeon an "attention seeker".
She said: "I feel like I’m a child of the union, that I really believe we are a family and we’re better together. And I think the best thing to do with Nicola Sturgeon is ignore her.
"She’s an attention seeker, that’s what she is. And what we need to do is show the people of Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales what we are delivering for them, and making sure that all of our government policies apply right across the United Kingdom."
Reacting to the comments, Deputy First Minister John Swinney told GMS: "I think these remarks are deeply troubling and concerning. I think many people in Scotland regardless of their politics will be really concerned and in many cases insulted by them."
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