Ian Blackford has claimed "Scotland loses" irrespective of who wins the race to develop into the subsequent chief of the Conservative social gathering.
The SNP chief at Westminster clashed with Boris Johnson within the Commons at this time one week after the Prime Minister introduced he would stand down later this summer time.
Blackford accused the MPs bidding to develop into the subsequent Tory chief of getting into a "poisonous race to the precise" centered on slashing taxes and slicing public spending.
However the Nationalist confronted a dig from the departing PM when Johnson quipped "he is going or I am going" following speculating that Blackford may very well be ousted as chief of the SNP Westminster group.
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Talking at PMQs, Blackford mentioned: "The Tory management contest is shortly descending right into a poisonous race to the precise. And it is clear whoever wins that race, Scotland loses.
"The previous chancellor has pledged to control like Margaret Thatcher. The present chancellor is threatening 20 per cent cuts to the NHS and public providers.
"And they're all attempting to out do one another on an excessive Brexit costing the economic system billions.
"Is the true cause that the Prime Minister will not endorse any of those terrible candidates as a result of whoever turns into the subsequent Tory chief will make Genghis Khan seem like a reasonable?"
Johnson fired again: "I really feel an actual twinge that this can nearly be the final time to have the chance to reply a query.. as a result of he is going or I am going, I do not know.
"All I might say to him is, I believe the subsequent chief of my social gathering will need to ensure that we do every little thing that we will to work with the Scottish Authorities, in the way in which that I've been capable of in the previous couple of years, to guard and safe our Union."
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