Jeremy Corbyn has sparked anger from the SNP after posting a video claiming the party usher in Margaret Thatcher's government and 18 years of Tory rule.
The Labour leader posted the 47-second video on Twitter looking back at the 1979 no-confidence vote in James Callaghan's government, which was won by one vote.
Eleven SNP MPs voted with the Conservative Party to bring down the Labour government and force a general election, which saw Mrs Thatcher enter Downing Street.
Forty years ago today, @theSNP did this...pic.twitter.com/yXlTeXp7tq
— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) March 28, 2019
Mr Corbyn shared the video, which contains footage of SNP MP Tommy Sheppard's comments from last year that "in retrospect, I would have done exactly the same thing".
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Following Mr Corbyn's tweet, SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon replied: "Dear @jeremycorbyn - instead of talking about things that happened when I was eight years old, how about showing some leadership today?
Dear @jeremycorbyn - instead of talking about things that happened when I was eight years old, how about showing some leadership today? You could start by asking yourself why the polls show you still trailing behind the most incompetent Tory government in our lifetimes. https://t.co/3oYW4TL9kp
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) March 28, 2019
"You could start by asking yourself why the polls show you still trailing behind the most incompetent Tory government in our lifetimes."
Stewart McDonald, the SNP MP for Glasgow South, added: "How about you get off your a*** and deal with the problems we face right now rather than indulging yourself in more fantasy bogeyman trash?"
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