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Mordaunt: SNP’s legacy appalling but Scots do have somewhere warm to take heroin

Source: PA Wire

Penny Mordaunt has claimed young Scots will have “somewhere safe and warm to take heroin” as a result of the SNP’s “appalling legacy”.

The Commons Leader took aim at the SNP’s record, including its support for a drug consumption facility, after saying the party is on her list of those she is “standing up and fighting against”.

Her criticism came in response to SNP Commons leader Deidre Brock, who mocked Ms Mordaunt’s Conservative Party conference speech in which she repeatedly urged people to “stand up and fight” against things.

Ms Brock “wants a fight” with people unable to work because of ill health, given his promised welfare reforms to ensure people signed off sick look for work.

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