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Nicola Sturgeon has been dealt a humiliating blow by Boris Johnson who has issued a brutal three word verdict on his former political foe. In a final humiliation for the ex-SNP leader the former Prime Minister claims Sturgeon helped “save the union” during her time in office.

Sturgeon, who served as First Minister of Scotland and leader oft the SNP from 2014 to 2023, failed to move the dial on independence during her tenure. Speaking at an event in Edinburgh, Johnson who stepped down as an MP in 2023, was asked about his relationship with the former First Minister who he had clashed with numerous times. Praising his former rival, Johnson said that Sturgeon had made the Union “safe for a long time” and will not “hear a bad word against her”.

Interviewed at the Usher Hall by journalist Cat Stewart, Mr Johnson said: “I won’t hear a word against her.

“Thanks to Nicola I think the Union is safe for a long time.

“The dogs barked, the caravan moved on.”

The former Prime Miniser added that Sturgeon made the then Conservative government look bad for making it seem that they were less concerned about the effects of covid, “which wasn’t true”.

He said: “During Covid she was very politically adroit and she was always totally running rings around us.

“We had these Cobra meetings. We would agree that I would go out and address the nation on the BBC, and I’d still be stumbling through from the meeting to get my statement ready, and I’d see her on TV claiming credit for whatever stringent measure had been applied.

“She was brilliant at that. She understood that at the time, probably less in retrospect, but at the time, people wanted the most savage knockdown possible.

“She always beat me on that. She always say, well, in Scotland, we do this, and made it look as though the UK Government was being unfeeling and less concerned about about health, which wasn’t true. So I take my hat off to her for that.”

In her memoir Frankly Sturgeon criticies Johnson heavily, she previously called him a “clown” in an expletive-laden text conversation with her chief of staff.

The UK Covid Inquiry heard that Ms Sturgeon was offended by Mr Johnson’s “utter incompetence”.