Boris Johnson is understood to have told the Tory party conference that he does not want Nicola Sturgeon “anywhere near” a UN summit on climate change taking place in Glasgow next year,
COP26 will see more than 30,000 delegates from around the world descend on the Scottish city to discuss how to tackle the ongoing global climate emergency.
Climate experts, business leaders and citizens are among the people set to attend the 26th UN conference of its kind.
However, the Scottish Sun are reporting that the Prime Minister told his party conference in Manchester that Scotland's first minister should not be given a place at the table.
According to The Scottish Sun , Johnson said: “The leaders of the entire world will come to Glasgow for the Copb 26 climate change summit.
“I guess I don’t mind seeing a Saltire or two on that summit but I want to see a union flag - I don’t want to see Nicola Sturgeon anywhere near it.
“The Scottish Nationalist Party didn’t secure that summit in Glasgow , it was the United Kingdom government.”
Boris Johnson is said to have made the remarks in front of a ‘gleeful’ crowd of Scottish Tories at the conference on Sunday night.
It comes just days after Sturgeon slammed the Prime Minister for his “violent” language during a heated session in the House of Commons on Wednesday.
Johnson was criticised for saying that the best way to honour the late Jo Cox is to “get Brexit done”.
The phrase has since become a slogan for the Conservative party as it prepares for a much-anticipated election in the coming months.
