Nicola Sturgeon was able to indulge in a small spot of schadenfreude today, as A level results were announced in England, and UK ministers were criticised for the downgrading of some students’ results.
The Scottish first minister has had a hellish week defending her own disastrous handling of exam results north of the border, which culminated on Tuesday with the SNP U-turning on its decision to downgrade thousands of students’ exam results – a decision which has been widely criticised by Scottish Conservatives.
So when Sturgeon appeared to spot Tory ministers frantically deleting their tweets criticising the SNP’s handling of the crisis, the first minister couldn’t resist a quick jibe at the opposition’s alleged hypocrisy this afternoon:
Unfortunately though, it appears that Tory MPs weren’t deleting their tweets after all. The claim they were was made by BBC Newsnight journalist Lewis Goodall, who is starting to develop a
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