Nicola Sturgeon's independence plans would also break up the NHS, the Scottish Tories have warned after she put the health service's future at the heart of her general election campaign.

The First Minister used a campaign stop in Rutherglen to warn that Boris Johnson is "desperate" to do a post-Brexit trade deal with Donald Trump that would involve "corporate access to the NHS."

Despite both Mr Trump and Mr Johnson denying the NHS would be part of the negotiations, she said this demonstrated why "the future of Scotland's NHS must be in Scotland's hands."

But the Tories said Ms Sturgeon represented the "real threat" to the NHS as her blueprint for Scottish separation would break up the health service and deprive it of record funding from Westminster.

Jackson Carlaw, their interim leader, accused her of "the same old baseless scaremongering" she used in the independence referendum when Scots were warned they must vote Yes to save the NHS from supposed Tory privatisation.