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First minister’s questions was inevitably dominated by Brexit matters, specifically with Nicola Sturgeon being accused of hypocrisy by Scottish Conservative deputy Jackson Carlaw after her SNP MPs failed to back the customs union amendment last night, despite promoting it as a compromise option along with a single market for the last three years.

It was clear, argued Carlaw, that the SNP were obsessed with independence and not interested in compromise at all.

But Sturgeon insisted that her reasoning was that, with options to remain among the amendments, “stopping Brexit altogether must be our top priority”. She added that the option of staying in the single market and customs union was not on the ballot paper last night.

Her spokesperson later said that the first minister’s position was that “remain appears to be very much in play”, that there was nothing on last night’s ballot that met the full continued single market/customs union arrangement put forward as a compromise by the Scottish government in 2016, but that the SNP has “not abandoned the potential for compromise”.

Sturgeon suggested at FMQs that her MPs might vote differently on the options if they were brought forward again.

Meanwhile, two SNP MPs abstained on the amendment for a second vote last night; long-serving MPs Pete Wishart and Angus Brendan Macneil broke the whip – unusually for SNP MPs –having spoken out previously about their concerns that such a vote sets a dangerous precedent for another independence referendum in Scotland.

The FM’s spokesperson said that she disagreed with their position. And, again, he said that it was “self-evident that we need to wait for clarity” before Sturgeon can set out her own long-awaited thinking on independence.

At the start of the session proceedings were interrupted by protesters from Extinction Rebellion Scotland who unfurled a banner demanding that the FM “establish a citizen’s assembly to address the climate emergency”.