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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Severin Carrell and Libby Brooks

Sturgeon accuses Truss of doing ‘lasting damage to fabric of UK society’

Nicola Sturgeon speaks during an interview as part of her visit of the venue for the SNP National Conference in Aberdeen on October 7, 2022.
Nicola Sturgeon says she doesn’t know if ‘arrogance, lack of respect or insecurity’ is behind Liz Truss not speaking to her since becoming PM. Photograph: Michał Wachucik/AFP/Getty Images

Nicola Sturgeon has accused Liz Truss of doing “real and lasting damage to the fabric of British society” after crashing the UK economy, sinking the pound and threatening the poorest with further austerity.

The prime minister’s brief tenure had been “utterly catastrophic”, Sturgeon told Good Morning Britain on Friday before the Scottish National party’s annual conference in Aberdeen this weekend.

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