The Scottish National Party is in its “final death throes”, Penny Mordaunt, the Commons leader, has claimed as she urged the party to prepare for a unionist government in Scotland.
Meanwhile, Deidre Brock, the SNP spokeswoman for business, called on Mordaunt to distance herself from Rishi Sunak’s “offensive outburst” this week, in which she claimed the prime minister had associated the Scottish government with extremists.
In response, Mordaunt jibed that Brock could fill in one of Police Scotland’s hate crime reporting forms.
On Monday, Sunak said Scottish nationalists are “trying to tear our United Kingdom apart” in a Policy Exchange speech, and he has since denied the SNP’s accusations about his comments.
At business questions on Thursday, Brock said: “Can we have a
