Scottish Labour leader Dugdale: Brexit without a deal ‘as damaging as independence’

Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, in her speech to the STUC on Wednesday, will claim Tory threats that Britain could leave the European Union without an agreed Brexit deal are as damaging to the UK as Nicola Sturgeon’s plans to hold a second independence referendum, a Scottish daily reports.

Ms Dugdale will say: “The Government’s handling of Brexit has shown us the risks they’re willing to take with our country’s economy.”

“Threatening to walk away from the EU without a deal is no better than Nicola Sturgeon’s threat to walk away from the UK with independence. Both would lead to job losses and even more austerity than we’re already facing.”