Nicola Sturgeon is the leader of the SNP (Image: GETTY)
"We now need to get on and make it happen.
"So when we are recovering from Covid, when we're getting Brexit up and moving, when we are trying to take the nation forward and recover from this massive debt that has been incurred we do not need any other distractions."
He continued: "We do not need devise behaviour in Scotland that another referendum would bring.
"And by the way, it is worth repeating that just because you lost the first referendum does not mean you get the right to a second go.