Nicola Sturgeon offers Boris Johnson hairbrush for Christmas

The first minister joked that a brush might be the best gift for Boris Johnson
The first minister joked that a brush might be the best gift for Boris Johnson
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Nicola Sturgeon said she would reciprocate Boris Johnson’s promise of “tonnes of fish” for Christmas by buying him a hairbrush.

The first minister took a light-hearted swipe at Mr Johnson’s famously tousled locks in her final coronavirus briefing before Christmas.

Last week the prime minister said his Christmas present to Ms Sturgeon would be a Brexit deal that secures a bigger fishing quota. “The people of Scotland will become the proud possessors of hundreds of thousands of tonnes of fish, shellfish, crustaceans . . . She will have more than she could possibly consume herself for a very, very long time to come.”

Asked what she would give him in return yesterday, Ms Sturgeon replied: “A hairbrush maybe?”

Ms Sturgeon, who cut her own hair