Nicola Sturgeon was rebuked by ministers and MPs after she delivered the jibe during an interview in which she hinted at a possible election tie-up with Keir Starmer . The SNP leader insisted it is 'not difficult to answer' the question of whether Sir Keir or Liz Truss should be in No10, saying: 'I detest the Tories and everything they stand for.' The comments were condemned as a disrespectful slur on a quarter of the Scottish electorate who voted Conservative at the last general election. They also fuelled alarm that Labour and the Scottish nationalists doing a pact to get into power if there is a hung Parliament.