Nicola Sturgeon attacks the opposition parties in her keynote conference speech, telling delegates at the conference that Scottish Labour was having it's "annual leadership election".
The SNP leader said: "Hypocrites, plotters, betrayers, barrel scrapers. No, that's not what we've been calling the candidates. That's what they've been calling each other.
"These days, ferrets in a sack distance themselves from Scottish Labour."
To cheers from the audience she said the Tories were "now back in third place in Scottish politics" as she hit out at the Conservatives over their "racism, misogyny and sectarianism".
She issued a challenge to Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson, saying: "The disgusting views that have been expressed by too many Tory politicians have no place in public life.
"It's time Ruth Davidson found some backbone and kicked the racists and bigots out of her party."
Sturgeon added: "The opposition in Scotland are all over the place.
"That's why more than ever the responsibility is on us, the SNP, to provide the good government that the people of our country expect and deserve."
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