Sturgeon accuses Truss of doing ‘lasting damage to fabric of UK society’

Comments come as polls deliver sobering verdict on Scotland's ruling party as it prepares for conference

Nicola Sturgeon has accused Liz Truss of doing real and lasting damage to the fabric of British society" after crashing the UK economy, sinking the pound and threatening the poorest with further austerity.

The prime minister's brief tenure had been utterly catastrophic", Sturgeon told Good Morning Britain on Friday before the Scottish National party's annual conference in Aberdeen this weekend.