Rolling coverage of the SNP conference in Glasgow
8.02am BST
Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister and SNP leader, is doing a round of interviews this morning. The SNP conference is taking place in Glasgow and Sturgeon has been answering questions about the speech she gave yesterday. Her main speech to the conference will take place tomorrow afternoon but, just as Theresa May chose to give two speeches to her party conference, a Brexit one at the start and a domestic policy one at the end, Sturgeon opened the conference yesterday with a speech about Brexit and Scottish independence.
Here is the Guardian’s story about it by Severin Carrell.
Related: Nicola Sturgeon challenges May with second referendum bill
Nicola Sturgeon warned that she was prepared to stage a second Scottish independence referendum before the UK quits the European Union as she attacked the Tories for their “xenophobic” rhetoric on the EU.
In a clear challenge to Theresa May’s government in London, the first minister told the Scottish National party conference in Glasgow she would unveil draft legislation next week to prepare for a rerun of the 2014 referendum within the next two years.
“The rhetoric from the Tory conference was xenophobic, all about borders and blue passports”: @NicolaSturgeon tells @BBCBreakfast #SNP16
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