Truss: Scotland’s Nationalist Leader Is ‘Attention-Seeker’ and Should Be Ignored

Foreign Secretary Liz Truss speaks during the second Conservative Party membership hustings in Exeter, England, on Aug. 1, 2022. Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images

UK Conservative leadership contender Liz Truss has called Scotland’s pro-independence First Minister Nicola Sturgeon an “attention-seeker” who should be ignored.

At the leadership hustings on Aug. 1, the foreign secretary criticised Sturgeon’s push for another independence referendum.