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SCOTTISH FIRST MINISTER Nicola Sturgeon has said Liz Truss “looked a little bit as if she’d swallowed a wasp” after the SNP leader told Truss she had been in Vogue twice.
Ms Sturgeon said the Foreign Secretary asked her about how to get into the magazine when they briefly met last year.
Earlier in the Tory leadership race, Ms Truss dismissed Ms Sturgeon as an “attention seeker”.
Ms Sturgeon was interviewed by LBC’s Iain Dale at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre during the city’s Fringe festival, where she described Boris Johnson as a “disgrace to the office of Prime Minister”.
Asked about Ms Truss’s comments about her, Ms Sturgeon said she initially thought “it was made up, it was a spoof.”
The First Minister then said she had met Ms Truss during an event at the Cop26 summit in Glasgow last year.
Ms Sturgeon said she had recently been interviewed by Vogue magazine before their encounter.
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— British Vogue (@BritishVogue) September 7, 2015
“I said to her: They came and asked me.
“I didn’t really mean to do this, but I said to her it hadn’t actually been my first time in Vogue, it had been my second time.
“It looked a little bit as if she’d swallowed a wasp.
“I’m sure she’ll be in Vogue before too long.”
She continued: “I remember it because there we were at the world’s biggest climate change conference in Glasgow, world leaders about to arrive.
“That was the main topic of conversation she was interested in pursuing. And once we’d exhausted that it kind of dried up.
“I’m sure we’ll have many more conversations about many more substantive things.”
Earlier, Ms Sturgeon discussed her interactions with Boris Johnson.
Comparing him to his predecessor, she said: “I think perhaps uncharitably I described my conversations with Theresa May when she was Prime Minister, as being soul destroying.
“I look back somewhat fondly now on that.”
Ms Sturgeon said she and Ms May “differed massively” in their political beliefs but the former Prime Minister “took the job seriously”.
In contrast, she said her interactions with Boris Johnson were “one long bluster”.
She continued: “You know, he was a third Prime Minister I’ve dealt with as First Minister.
“It was literally like nothing I’ve ever dealt with before in terms of any senior politician
“You know, I’m going to be blunt here, he was a disgrace to the office of Prime Minister.”
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Nearly 2 months off them, it’s the best decision I’ve ever made:-)
Saving a small fortune and feeling fit and healthy
Good man, off them since may myself :)
He wasn’t all bad so!
So in relation to being against smoking he was ahead of his time,
Like it or not guys smokings days are numbered, its going to become a bigger factor in alot of things….including applying for a job,
Why would an employer want to employe anyone who willingly makes them sick more often then a non-smoker, statistically takes more breaks and constantly smells of smoke.
He didnt want his $700 shirts smelling of cigarette smoke. tighten your belts my arse. Not for him .
Fair play to Fianna Fail they got it spot on on smoking, Micheál Martin deserves praise on this too for the smoking ban. It is a pity for all of us that the same is not true for their handling of the economy and their descent into cronyism for which our children’s children will pay.
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