Starmer today hit back and insisted Sturgeon should “roll up her sleeves and concentrate on the Health Service in Scotland”.

He also said the First Minister should do more to fix the problems “that are actually under her control in Scotland.”

Starmer told LBC presenter James O’Brien: “Look, can I firstly gently suggest to Nicola Sturgeon that she might want to roll up her sleeves and concentrate on the Health Service in Scotland, which is, I mean, we’re talking about the ambulance crisis here.

“[There has] been an ambulance crisis in Scotland for a very long time. The military driving the ambulances even last year. The education system is on its knees. So I think that Nicola Sturgeon may want to spend a bit of time fixing some of the problems that are actually under her control in Scotland.”

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