People in Scotland have “been monumentally let down” by the SNP, according to the Conservative MP Penny Mordaunt who said that the tide had turned against the nationalists.
The leader of the House of Commons claimed that people in Scotland had been portrayed as “eternally beaten and self-pitying” by the party as part of a narrative blaming England for any problems.
She said that narrative was driven by “hyperbole, hysteria and hatred” and that the SNP was “fuelled by bile”.
Mordaunt, who ran against Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss in last year’s Conservative leadership contest, was at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe on Sunday.
Writing in the Daily Express on Thursday she said that the new start promised by the SNP in 2007 turned out