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After Theresa May failed to give him a clear answer at PMQs on whether she had offered a second referendum at any point during Brexit talks with Labour, the SNP’s Westminster leader Ian Blackford has called on Jeremy Corbyn to “come clean” about what is being discussed:

If it is the case that the UK government has not discussed a second EU referendum in their talks with the Labour party – then it begs the question, what is Jeremy Corbyn up to? The leader of the opposition has been flaky at least on the question of a second EU referendum – he needs to come clean with the public on what exactly he is bargaining with the Tories, behind closed doors. People deserve to know the truth.

Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon earlier repeated the SNP charge that Scotland has been sidelined by the Brexit process, tweeting:



Tonight, 12 of the 27 EU member states that will decide the UK’s future have populations smaller than or similar in size to Scotland’s. If we become independent we get to sit at that table - enjoying the same solidarity shown to Ireland - instead of being sidelined by Westminster.

At PMQs, May’s riposte to Blackford was quite the opposite – that Scottish independence would have meant taking Scotland out of the EU. But this is at odds with the EU’s Guy Verhofstadt, who has previously stated before a Commons committee that it was a “simple fact” that Scotland could join the EU without the UK.