Nicola Sturgeon has accused Prime Minister Theresa May of not listening to the concerns of people across the UK.

Speaking outside Downing Street she said in their meeting Theresa May showed no indication of budging from her 'red lines'.

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Speaking from Downing Street, Ms Sturgeon said Mrs May seems set on wooing the "utterly laughable" hard Brexiteers in her own party instead.

She was speaking after the two leaders held face-to-face talks on the way forward for the Brexit process.

Ms Sturgeon said: "It seems to me her priority is trying to win support from the DUP and the hardline Brexiteers in her own party rather than genuinely trying to compromise to bring others on side.

"It seems to me she's putting all of her eggs in the basket of trying to win over the DUP and the ERG (European Research Group) - playing to the right-wing hardline Brexiteers which, unless something fundamental changes that I can't see right now, is destined to fail.

"It's also taking the entire country and Scotland in particular down the wrong road, one that's going to be devastating for our economy and, particularly around free movement, deeply damaging to Scotland's population and therefore our economy in the long-term."

Ms Sturgeon also dismissed calls by ERG leader Jacob Rees-Mogg to suspend or prorogue Parliament to prevent a no-deal Brexit.

"If it wasn't so serious it would be utterly laughable," she said.

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"These are the same people, of course, who campaigned for Brexit on the basis it was taking back control for the UK Parliament and at the first whiff of Parliament actually exerting control, they want Parliament, it sounds to me, pretty much abolished.

"Jacob Rees-Mogg and co don't seem to care too much for democracy, and what worries me after the discussion with the Prime Minister is it's those people she's putting all of her efforts into trying to persuade, rather than trying to build a compromise with more reasonable voices."

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The First Minister said she had specifically asked Mrs May whether she would soften her Brexit red lines or consider another EU referendum, but was rebuffed.

Ms Sturgeon said: "I think the Prime Minister fears that she would lose another Scottish independence referendum so she's running scared of the verdict of the people.

"It's probably the reason she doesn't want another EU referendum, because she thinks she might lose that.

"People that are confident in their arguments don't run away from the verdict of the people."

But Mrs May earlier told the Commons the SNP is "out of touch" with the people of Scotland, who she said do not want "another divisive Scottish independence referendum".