She said: "The idea that the United Kingdom led by this Prime Minister and this Government can just blunder into negotiations starting one week today, I just don't think it's a credible proposition".
Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has called on British Prime Minister Theresa May to pause Brexit talks until a cross-party consensus can be built in the wake of the recent general election results.
"The Tories' hard Brexit plan has been rejected and we can not allow the Brexit negotiations to become hostage to the inability of either the Tories or Labour to command a clear majority", Sturgeon said.
I can confirm that I will be a candidate for SNP group leader at Westminster.
Nominations for the post of SNP Westminster group leader are set to open to MPs.
The delay in the Queen's Speech raises concerns about Prime Minister Theresa May's ability to form a functioning government, the First Minister has said.
James Kelly, Scottish Labour's election campaign manager, said the party made "remarkable gains" last week - and he pointed to a handful of seats where it was within 400 votes of winning.
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"It is an opportunity, perhaps - I know the arithmetic, I am not blind to the hurdles - but it perhaps means an opportunity for a progressive alternative to a Tory/DUP government".
Nicola Sturgeon has been accused of deflecting questions about a second independence referendum.
He added: "Before she expresses any opinion about Brexit she first needs to take a second independence referendum off the table".
Sturgeon said on Monday that the disappointing results last week had left the United Kingdom government so unstable and weak it was vital that the British premier sought the support of devolved governments and opposition parties to adopt a common position before London started negotiations with Brussels.
She said: "The SNP is the third-biggest party in the House of Commons and there are two immediate questions that demand out attention".
"They should not be taking sides with any one of the protagonists in Northern Ireland because it's so delicate, it's so vulnerable and it could therefore unsettle the process in Northern Ireland and that could then subsequently unsettle the arrangement for the whole of the United Kingdom".
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