Sturgeon was told she “simply wasn’t bright enough” to understand the Brexit deal

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Scotland’s First Minister was told she &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;simply wasn’t bright enough to understand how good &lbrack;Theresa May’s Brexit&rsqb; deal was” in a meeting with the British Prime Minister&comma; MPs have heard&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Scotland’s Constitutional Relations Secretary Mike Russell told Westminster’s Scottish Affairs Committee the incident happened the last time he and Nicola Sturgeon met Mrs May&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Russell said&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When I met the Prime Minister with the First Minister to discuss what we thought we might be discussing&comma; and indeed this was what was being said publicly&comma; we would discuss compromise positions&period;<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What we actually heard was an explanation of why we simply weren’t bright enough to understand how good her deal was&period; Obviously&comma; she wasn’t either because her deal changed&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He added&colon; <em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I must be honest about this&comma; the Prime Minister is not a person who seems willing to listen to what the devolved administrations want to say&comma; still less to compromise as a result of that&period;”<&sol;em><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He was giving evidence to the committee in its inquiry into intergovernmental relations between Westminster and Scotland&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said relations were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;poor”&comma; having been worsened by Brexit&comma; and added that the joint ministerial committee system had &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;failed”&comma; particularly in its supposed oversight role on the Brexit process&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Last night&comma; there was of course a briefing for Arlene Forster – there was no briefing for Nicola Sturgeon&comma;”<&sol;em> he said&comma; referencing last-minute adjustments to the Brexit deal&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Mr Russell also questioned the relevance of the position of Scottish Secretary&comma; saying he does not &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;see what the purpose is”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><em>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I don’t think the role has any function at all&comma;”<&sol;em> he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He said the Scotland Office is &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;not relevant to what we’re doing and is an appendage from a past settlement that is no longer necessary”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e3a87b375a6">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e3a87b375a6'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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