Boris Johnson booed and heckled on visit to Scotland
Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson made clear her opposition to a no-deal Brexit
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Your support makes all the difference.Boris Johnson was booed and jeered by protesters as he arrived for talks with Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon on his first trip north of the border since becoming prime minister.
The PM has met resistance to his Brexit plans on his trip, with Scottish Tory leader Ruth Davidson making clear that she will not support a no-deal outcome.
Mr Johnson admitted he had made no headway with European leaders since taking the task of delivering Brexit over from Theresa May last week. But he rejected the claim of Michael Gove - who he has given the job of preparing for no-deal - that the government now assumed the UK would leave without an agreement.
After spelling out his demand to rewrite Ms May's withdrawal agreement to leaders including European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker, German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron over the past few days, he said there had been "no change in their position".
Despite the EU's refusal to consider reopening the agreement, he insisted there was "ample scope to do a new deal, to do a new deal and a better deal".
As he was greeted on the steps of Bute House in Edinburgh by Ms Sturgeon, groups of anti-Brexit and pro-independence campaigners booed and heckled from across the street.
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