Article 3D8HG UK government's Brexit impact assessment 'shameful' says Sturgeon

UK government's Brexit impact assessment 'shameful' says Sturgeon

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Libby Brooks
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Scottish first minister also says Jeremy Corbyn appears 'only slightly less in favour of a hard Brexit than the Tories'

Nicola Sturgeon has described as "shameful" Westminster's failure to consider the impact of Brexit on the economy, as her own government prepares to publish a "clear-eyed, hard-headed" analysis of potential outcomes of leaving the EU.

Interviewed on the BBC's Andrew Marr Show on Sunday morning, Scotland's first minister said that, although she had seen "some redacted material" from the UK government's Brexit impact assessments, "I think everyone has concluded that what we were told previously by David Davis were in-depth impact studies are no such thing".

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