A radio caller known as Barbara, demanded the SNP leader, Nicola Sturgeon, stop “spouting” that she “wants Scotland to be independent” during a scathing attack. It comes after Prime Minister Boris Johnson met with the First Minister earlier this week as he tries to rally support around his hardline Brexit stance. The caller was asked by BBC host Nicky Campbell how much she “valued and cherished” the “extraordinary successful Union”.

Barbara replied: “Immensely Nicky, I am afraid I do not have a political or even an intellectual point to say here.

“But, I can say that my late father was a Scot through and through and through. He was a MacDonald.

“He fought, and he flew, in the Second World War, to preserve the United Kingdom – not Scotland, England or Wales, the United Kingdom, or Great Britain as it probably would have been called.

“He would be turning in his grave at the thought of his beloved Scotland, and I also love Scotland from the bottom of my heart, being separate from England and Wales.

I am flying the flag for the United Kingdom and that’s all I have to say on the subject

Radio caller, Barbara

“I am flying the flag for the United Kingdom and that’s all I have to say on the subject.”

She added: “It is an emotional response from the heart.

“I am fed up with Nicola Sturgeon spouting she wants Scotland to be independent.

“I just wish she would keep quiet and we could all work together as a whole country for what is best for the whole country.”

The BBC host, Campbell, then asked the caller whether she voted to Leave or to Remain in the 2016 EU referendum.

The caller replied: “I actually voted to stay. But, I am at the point now where I couldn’t care less either way.

“I am sick of it. I don’t like Boris but I do think we should give him a chance. I just want to forget about Brexit – and just get on as a United country for what is best for our country.”

The BBC host thanked the caller for her passionate tirade, before he branded her call the “best in weeks”.

Campbell said: “What a splendid call. Thanks for coming on this morning. Not intellectual? It is the best call we have had in weeks.”

Following Ms Sturgeon’s meeting with Mr Johnson earlier this week, the First Minister claimed the Conservative Party leader had said there shouldn’t be another Scottish independence referendum.

Ms Sturgeon said: “We had a very lively discussion, we had a session where it was just the two of us in the room and then we were joined by our officials.

“In both of those sessions we had a very lively exchange of views about independence. I made clear my government’s intentions to pass the framework Bill to allow a referendum to take place next year.

“He made the case that he was for the Union, and didn’t think Scotland should have the right to choose. And we had a to-ing and fro-ing on the pros and cons of independence.

“At one point I suggested to him we didn’t have the debate in Bute House, we took that debate out into the public and let the public decide.

“I even suggested we might debate it live on television – at which point his adviser said it was probably time that we left. We had a very robust exchange of views about that.”

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