Nigel Farage has branded Nicola Sturgeon the most “deeply arrogant and unpleasant” politician has ever met. The scathing rant came during a live show recorded for GB News in Aberdeen. 

Taking questions from the audience, Mr Farage spared no words for the former leader of the SNP after he was asked who he would prefer to have a pint with  – Ms Sturgeon or other former SNP leader, Alex Salmond. 

Mr Farage said: “I gotta tell you, the times that I’ve done debates with Nicola Sturgeon, been face to face with Nicola Sturgeon, walked past Nicola Sturgeon in corridors, I don’t think I’ve met anybody in politics, anywhere in the world, that I found so personally, deeply, arrogant and unpleasant as Nicola Sturgeon.”

The crowd seemed shocked at the bold statements, before some applauded.

But Ms Sturgeon was not the only Scottish politician to be lambasted by Mr Farage, with the media personality also taking aim at the Alba Party’s drive for independence in the same show.

In an interview with Alba Party founding member Charlie Abel, Mr Farage suggested he was trying to “have it both ways” given that Scotland had already elected to stay within the UK before the nationwide vote on EU membership.

When Mr Farage had pointed to the 2014 referendum on Scottish Independence, in which just over 55 percent of Scots who voted saying they wanted to remain in the UK, Mr Abel argued they deserved another vote.

He said: “Remember, the Scottish people instructed a mandate in 2016 to the SNP government that if there was a material change in circumstances, such as being taken out of the EU against our will, which happened, that we would have another referendum.”

But Mr Farage suggested he was trying to “have it both ways” given that Scotland had already elected to stay within the UK before the nationwide vote on EU membership.

When Mr Abel asked the media personality whether he believed in the right to self-determination, Mr Farage pointed out he himself had campaigned for the UK to leave the EU for 30 years, and understood “the emotions behind it.”

But, he added: “Of course I get it – but you can’t have a referendum every Thursday!”

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