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Ruth Davidson, the Conservative leader in Scotland, said the English local election results should be a spur to both Labour and the Tories to reach a compromise on Brexit.

In one of her first interviews since returning from maternity leave, she told ITV’s Good Morning Britain:

I do understand the frustration that’s out there. The results that are coming in should really focus minds in the talks that are going on between my party and the Labour party to get a deal through so that we can have that orderly Brexit that will allow the country to move on. Politicians told the people that they would make this decision and that that decision would be respected. And now it looks as if we the professional classes we’re the stumbling block to making this happen.

Davidson, who was a leading remain campaigner, rejected both a no-deal Brexit and a second referendum. She said:

I genuinely believe that the answer lies in the middle. It will require a compromise both from people within my party and from people within the Labour party. I’m really hopeful, actually, that the talks that have been ongoing in the last week can can reach that sort of resolution.

And again denied that she had any plans to lead the Tory party. She said: “I’ve been pretty consistent that that’s not where my ambitions lie. I want to be the first minister of Scotland. I’ve no interest in No 10.”