THE First Minister was not told of Boris Johnson’s plans to visit to Scotland this week, in what is being described as an “act of gross discourtesy” by one of her predecessors.
Nicola Sturgeon learned of the Prime Minister’s trip in the coming days only when she read the press articles about it on her 50th birthday on Sunday, it is understood.
The Scottish Government told The National yesterday – 24 hours after the reports of the visit were published – that it had no information.
A source said: “We have had no official confirmation of any visit, as yet.”
Henry McLeish, the former Labour First Minister, attacked the lack of notification by Downing Street to the First Minister and suggested it was the type of behaviour displayed by US President Donald Trump.
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