Scotland’s first minister, Nicola Sturgeon, has said she is open-minded about Jeremy Corbyn becoming an interim prime minister as her representative in Westminster said the Scottish National party is now “desperate” for an election. Sturgeon said she was not personally pushing for Corbyn to lead the country as a unity figure, but he could be an interim prime minister to secure an extension to Brexit and then call a general election. He said it would then be the correct procedure to allow Corbyn to become interim leader. “This is not about supporting Jeremy Corbyn as prime minister, it’s about what we need to do to get to the situation where we have an election,” he added. Another election would be a precursor to the arguments that would play out in an independence referendum, he said.

Source: The Guardian September 27, 2019 18:22 UTC