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Old 09-04-2015, 01:11 PM #11
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The most vitriolic attacks were saved up for Ukip's David Coburn who withered on about how leaving the EU would solve most of Scotland's woes. When Mr Coburn suggested that the rise of zero hours contracts was thanks in part to the European Union, Labour's Mr Murphy shouted: "Stop demonising people."

But the most blistering attack came from Nicola Sturgeon, who firmly said: "I think the only depressing thing tonight is the narrow-minded xenophobic attitude of David Coburn. It’s absolutely utterly disgusting. This is the guy who compared one of my colleagues to a convicted terrorist simply because he’s a Muslim. You are a disgrace.”

Ruth Davidson, from the Conservatives, added her dislike of such "bigotry".

Mr Coburn's comments also received some of the night's biggest boos and hisses from the audience.

He later took to Twitter to reiterate what he said:

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Zero Hours contracts were brought in to get round EU Temp Workers Directive thus scrapping UK Temp Contracts which had defined T/Ls
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