Nicola Sturgeon said that the Scottish government would continue to argue for a “common sense” approach to Brexit

The determination to avoid a no-deal Brexit should not lead the UK into accepting a bad-deal scenario, the first minister has said.

Nicola Sturgeon said that leaving the EU with no deal would be catastrophic for businesses across Scotland and the rest of the UK. The Scottish government would continue to argue for a “commonsense” approach to Brexit, and remaining in the single market and customs union for the long term was the “least damaging economic solution”, she added.

Ms Sturgeon was speaking at the CBI Scotland dinner in Glasgow where she said: “There’s no doubt at all that no deal would be disastrous, catastrophic for businesses across Scotland and the UK.

“But that said, one of the things that I feel very strongly about