Liz Truss has branded Nicola Sturgeon an "attention-seeker" and told a Tory leadership hustings in Exeter on Monday that the First Minister should be "ignored".

To rapturous applause at the event in Devon – the latest stop on the campaign trail for Ms Truss and Rishi Sunak – the Foreign Secretary said she would block another Scottish independence referendum and said " the best thing we can do with Nicola Sturgeon is ignore her".

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