Nicola Sturgeon launched the SNP manifesto today with a campaign to ‘Stop Brexit’.

The leader of the SNP disputed Boris Johnson’s claim that he can ‘get Brexit done’, insisting it is ‘nowhere near done’.

Ms Sturgeon added that promises Scotland would be treated as an equal partner at Westminster were ‘not just broken, but completely shattered’.

Crucially, Ms Sturgeon said she was open to forming a ‘progressive alliance’  with other parties following the election.

She said: ‘There is every chance that the SNP could hold the balance of power at Westminster.

‘Unlike the Liberal Democrats, the SNP will never, ever help the Tories into government, but we will be prepared to talk to other parties about forming a progressive alliance.’

She went on to call Boris Johnson ‘unfit for office’ and criticised Tory cuts to the Scottish budget and the National Health Service, adding that his disastrous Brexit deal, ‘would hit jobs, living standards and workers rights.’

She said there would be ‘worse to come’ if Mr Johnson remained Prime Minister, adding: ‘This is just the start. Brexit is nowhere near being done. The Tories have barely got going.

‘Because of Johnson’s hardline position there’s every chance that the UK could leave without a trade deal next year.’

She also said that if the Prime Minister gets the deal he wants before the December 2020 deadline, it will ‘be a nightmare’.

Scotland’s First Minister was also scathing of the leaders of the Better Together campaign during the Scottish independence referendum, who promised ‘stability’ if Scotland remained in the UK.

Nicola Sturgeon said the leaders of the three main parties at Westminster ‘promised stability’ if Scotland chose to stay in the UK.

Speaking at her party’s manifesto launch in Glasgow, Ms Sturgeon said: ‘These events are becoming quite a regular feature, which must be quite puzzling for people in Scotland.

‘The leaders of the no campaign, made up of the Westminster parties, promised that if we voted no, we would get stability.

‘Since then, the Westminster parties have delivered not stability, but constant chaos and three UK general elections.’

She also vowed to protect the NHS from uture trade deals.

Ms Sturgeon told the crowd her party would ‘stop the Tories from selling off Scotland’s health service’.

As a price of co-operation from the SNP, the party leader also said ‘policies which are driving people into poverty’ must be scrapped.

She pointed to the two-child cap on tax credits and the so-called ‘rape clause’ as policies that should be ended, along with Universal Credit.

The First Minister said policies proposed by other parties have already been instituted in Scotland, including free university tuition, NHS protection and free prescriptions.

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