SCOTLAND’S Justice Secretary has slammed a Tory MSP for his “waffle” when asked about UK plans to break international law.

UK ministers are set to add new laws that re-interpret the withdrawal treaty – agreed with Brussels earlier this year – to the Internal Market Bill.

That legislation has been branded a “power grab” by the Scottish Government and has been fiercely criticised by all Holyrood parties besides the Scottish Tories.

The bill aims to ensure goods from any nation of the UK can have unfettered access to any other nation. However, the Tory Government has made clear they want to change state aid rules agreed as part of the Northern Ireland protocol – intended to prevent a return to checks at the border with the Irish Republic.

Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis admitted in the Commons yesterday that international law would be broken in a “very specific and limited way” as ministers bid to override the Brexit deal.

During an appearance on Good Morning Scotland, Scottish Tory justice spokesman Liam Kerr refused to discuss the matter.

When asked if he was “embarrassed” by the UK’s behaviour, the North East MSP instead talked about the Hate Crime Bill and struggled to give a coherent response.

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Keith Brown, the SNP’s depute leader, accused Kerr of “flailing around”. Now Humza Yousaf has suggested the Tory MSP is in the “wrong job”.

“Asked repeatedly if UK Govt admitting to breaking international law concerns him, his answer is waffle,” the Justice Secretary said.

“If as a justice spokesperson you can't condemn international law being broken, you're in the wrong job.”

The UK Government’s open admission that it intends to break international law has drawn fierce criticism.

Nathalie Loiseau, an ally of president Macron and MEP on the Brexit co-ordinating group of the European Parliament, said yesterday: “You don’t ‘break international law in a specific and limited way’. You do break it or you don’t. You can’t be half illegal, as you can’t be half pregnant.”

Scotland’s Constitution Secretary Mike Russell commented: “This is a shabby blueprint that will open the door to bad trade deals and unleashes an assault on devolution the like we have not experienced since the Scottish Parliament was established.

“We cannot, and will not, allow that to happen.”