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ANDREA Leadsom, one of two candidates to be the next PM, revealed an ambition to slash Scottish spending in a series of whingeing blog posts.

The leading Brexiteer, who could become the UK’s second female prime minister after Margaret Thatcher , moaned about the way Scotland is funded over “us poor English”.

She also complained about “unbelievable perks” for Scots in her online diary dating to 2007, after the SNP came to power.

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Leadsom headed one post on public spending: “This really takes the biscuit.”

She wrote: “Scotland already receives about £1500 more each per annum from the public purse than us poor English.

“And what are they planning to do now under the SNP minority government? To abolish tuition fees for university students in Scotland, using the tax revenues that are so heavily subsidised by the English.”

In a May 2007 post, she also wondered why Scots would want to end a union that “vastly favours them over the English and Welsh”.

The Barnett Formula, which she wanted to scrap, was enshrined in The Vow made by Westminster leaders before the 2014 independence referendum.

Leadsom is going head to head with Home Secretary May in a bid to replace David Cameron .

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The vote will be decided by 150,000 Tory party members and the winner, who will also get the keys to No10, will be announced in September.

Leadsom, who is a favourite with grassroots activists, said in an interview last weekend that she’s happy to be compared to Thatcher. She said Britain’s first female PM “was real leadership” and had the “ideal” qualities of toughness and “personal warmth”.

SNP MSP Michael Russell, who convenes Holyrood’s finance committee, said: “Andrea Leadsom has the cheek to ask, ‘Why on earth would Scots want to break up the Union?’

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“The answer staring her right in the face is the approach of right-wing Tory politicians like her, who are intent on dragging Scotland out of the EU against our will.”