Nicola Sturgeon 'pretended she was PM of an independent country' and 'hijacked devolution'
A Scottish Labour peer said the former SNP leader and Scottish First Minister "wasn't good" at running the areas she should have been running.
Nicola Sturgeon adamant on returning to SNP in June
Nicola Sturgeon "pretended that she was prime minister of an independent country", a Scottish Labour peer has claimed.
Lord George Foulkes accused the former Scottish First Minister of having "hijacked" devolution.
He said it started with her predecessor Alex Salmond and continued under Ms Sturgeon.
Speaking to the Holyrood magazine, Lord Foulkes said the SNP heavyweight "pretended that she was prime minister of an independent country” while ignoring issues the Scottish government and parliament has power over.
He said: “She’s a very able politician and a very effective communicator but wasn’t good at running the Scottish Government and all the areas that she should have been running.
Click here to join our Whatsapp community to be the first to receive politics news from The Express
“That’s the one thing I’ve had a bee in my bonnet about.
"They should be required to stick to spending the money they get, by whatever means they get it, on devolved areas.”
Lord Foulkes has previously accused the SNP of misusing devolution “as a vehicle to campaign for independence”.