Ex-Prime Minister Gordon Brown is a candidate for leadership of theConservative Party to "get lost" inScotland He encouraged them to “rethink” what they said.
The foreign secretary, speaking at a leadership conference in Exeter, Devon, called Mr Sturgeon a "watch man" for rejecting his call for a second referendum on Scottish independence. is.
Ms Truss is now the frontrunner in the leadership race,and will replace Boris Johnson as prime minister.
Liz Truss is Scottish Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon (Jacob King/PA)
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But Mr Brown, who was Labor Prime Minister from 2007 to 2010, said the approach was "ridiculous" if Mr Truss wanted to keep UK trade unions "alive".
Mr Brown was a strong campaigner against independence, intervening in the first referendum in 2014 to insist that Scotland remain part of the United Kingdom.
} He helped the leaders of the Labor, Conservative and Liberal Democrats at the time formulate the "Oath" that promised to give Holyrood more power as an alternative to independence.
Former MPs for Kirk Cody and Cowdenbeath, speaking on his show The Political Party with Matt Forde on the fringe of Edinburgh, said:
He told an audience at McEwan Hall that both candidates would need to "cooperate" with Scottish politicians on constitutional issues.
The only way the Union or Britain will survive is if people find better ways to work together
Gordon Brown
He said that Ms. Truss was trying to "be tyrannical." There, the best thing to do was to say, "Miss Scotland."
He added:
"And you have to be in a position to say, let's work together on anything we can work together.
"It's just that I'm not going to talk to you at all. No, it's a ridiculous position."
He added:
"I would argue that Tory leaders should reconsider and make a fresh start in the relationship between the British government and Scotland."
