IT was quite telling that Theresa May’s first trip after her coronation as Prime Minister was to Edinburgh to visit Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish First Minister, and not as one would surely have expected to visit Brussels and Jean-Claude Juncker in order to get the Brexit negotiations under way.

Quite worryingly an immediate outcome of that meeting – which Downing Street took an incredible three full days to deny at the time – was Mrs Sturgeon claiming that she had been given a veto over Brexit.

At the very least it seems accepted by both sides that the First Minister was promised by the Prime Minister that Brexit would not go ahead until such time as “UK wide approval” had been obtained.

That sounds very much like a veto to me.

Both Mrs May and Mrs Sturgeon were on the same Remain side in the recent EU Referendum.

The clearly expressed will of the British people must not be thwarted, and Brexit must not be slowed down by a shady Tory/SNP stitch up.

It is kind of ironic that a major reason why the Tories won last year’s General Election was because of the fears stoked by them amongst the electorate of a future Labour Government being dictated to by the SNP – now it seems likely that the Tories are being hoisted by their own petard and are themselves subject to SNP diktat.

You should careful what you wish for.

Richard Ford

Ukip Gloucestershire