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SNP MPs “ambushed” the Tory Government as last night’s England match kicked off – by forcing MPs to vote on a series of obscure finance bills.

Votes on four motions linked to public spending were staged at 7pm, just as England kicked off their second round World Cup tie.

SNP deputy leader at Westminster Kirsty Blackman at first denied the unusual move was part of the party’s guerilla tactics to disrupt Commons procedures in protest over a Brexit debate snub.

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She tweeted: “It’s our only chance to vote on UK Government spending. It’s not really obscure.”

But then she added: “Also it’s a real shame we don’t have electronic voting. And that the UK Government proceeded to legislate in the face of the Scottish Parliament refusing legislative consent.”

SNP MP Patrick Grady earlier joked: “I’m sure there’s nothing else on this evening’s line-up that could be as interesting for people.”

(Image: Daily Record)

Tory MP Bernard Jenkin questioned if so many votes would have taken place if Scotland were in action.

Deputy Speaker Dame Eleanor Laing, a Scot, replied: “I just have a fervent hope that one day Scotland will be playing an important football match.”