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Sturgeon uniting with Corbyn would crash country – ‘higher taxes, weaker defence, poorer’


The former leader of the Scottish Conservative Party has written an article for The Telegraph about the problems of this potential alliance as an outcome of the election in three week’s time. She said the alliance would see “higher taxes, mass nationalisation and weaker defence”.

Ms Davidson said an alliance between SNP and Labour “would disrupts the results of both major referendums”.

She said: “Jeremy Corbyn has spent his career taking sides against the UK, while Nicola Sturgeon has made breaking up Britain her life’s work.

“Working together this country would end up on its knees.”

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This comes as polling guru Sir John Curtice has said Labour doing a deal with another party is their only way to power due to their “collapse in Scotland”.

She said: “In short, a Corbyn-Sturgeon political union would spell disaster for this country. Higher taxes, businesses punished, mass nationalisation, weaker defence, less safe streets and children born into the poorest households less able to change their life chances.

“And all of that with the country bitterly divided on constitutional lines with reruns of both major referendums.”

When she stood down in August, she said that it had been the “privilege of my life” to have led the party.

She had a baby last year and said she did not want to spend so much time away from her son and her partner.

Mr Corbyn has said no fresh referendum on Scotland’s place in the UK would take place in the first years of a new government.

The SNP has demanded a second referendum take place in 2020 and the party has made it clear it will pressure Mr Corbyn over a second referendum in exchange for supporting his party if he leads a minority government after the general election.



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