IT IS “inconceivable” that SNP MPs would consent to David Cameron’s plans to scrap the Human Rights Act, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said yesterday.

While Scotland has a separate legal system and human rights are a devolved issue, Ms Sturgeon said that there were no circumstances in which the SNP would “choose to view this as an English-only issue and opt to abstain” in the Commons.

Speaking alongside Liberty director Shami Chakrabarti in Glasgow, the First Minister said that her party “would have no interest and no truck whatsoever in doing a deal at Westminster which leaves rights intact here in Scotland but dilutes them in other parts of the country or, as is perhaps more likely, protects human rights on devolved issues but not on reserved issues.”

She said that any attempts to repeal the Act would be met with cross-party opposition in Scotland and that the British government’s small majority coupled with “no guarantee of unanimous support on its own benches” meant that David Cameron would face a strong challenge.