At a panel event at the Edinburgh Fringe on Saturday afternoon, hosted by broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika, Ms Sturgeon called the Prime Minister a “disgrace”.
She said: “I didn’t agree with David Cameron, I didn’t agree with” Theresa May“I didn’t agree with Boris Johnson, but he is the only one who has disgraced the office of Prime Minister.
“The sooner he’s gone, the better.”
Ms Sturgeon said the idea of parties taking place during the Covid-19 pandemic “stunned her”.
“The idea that this could have happened while the rest of the country was going through the horrors of it really amazes me,” she told the audience.
“The games themselves are bad enough, but frankly it was the lying and the constant attempt to shift the goalposts and the story.
“He was a disgrace, let’s face it.”
Four prime ministers have been on Downing Street since Ms Sturgeon took office in 2014 and she joked to onlookers that she never thought she would “look back fondly” on Theresa May as prime minister.
“At the beginning of Covid I thought it would be much better to have Theresa May – she always knew her stuff. She knew her job,” Mrs. Sturgeon said.
She joked that Ms. May was a “better dancer than me”.
The Prime Minister called for greater diversity in politics and praised Scottish Labor for having diverse leaders.
She added: “Here’s a sentence you’ll never hear me say before: to be fair to Labor in Scotland they’ve already had a female leader and they currently have a Muslim leader so UK Labor really needs to do its job together on diversity.”
When asked who she would most like to see as prime minister, Ms Sturgeon shrugged and laughed, saying that none of them will win the election in Scotland.
She said: “That’s not really the point. They will never win an election in Scotland. What do Margaret Thatcher, John Major, David Cameron, Theresa May and Boris Johnson all have in common? They have never won an election in Scotland.”
She labeled the choices voters in England had to make ‘terrible’ and accused Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer of being ‘a pale imitation of the Tories’.
Ms Sturgeon also addressed comments from Tory leadership contender Liz Truss, who said she should be “ignored”.
She said: “I am the democratically elected Prime Minister and you can only be in that position if a significant number of people vote for you.
“When she said I should be ignored, many people in Scotland heard that the democratic voices and choices of people in Scotland should be ignored.
“I don’t think that’s appropriate.
“People in Scotland are getting tired of being ignored by the Tory Prime Ministers.”
In response to Ms Truss’ comments that she was an attention seeker, Ms Sturgeon told the audience that as a politician you had to be a bit of an attention seeker to get your policies in the spotlight.
Ms Sturgeon also lashed out at former Scottish Conservative leader Ruth Davidson for entering the House of Lords.
She said: “Ruth decided to retire from politics but when it turned out she had no real intention of retiring from politics, she just wanted to go ahead without scrutiny and the annoying bit of running for the presidential election.” elections.
“So all the good things about politics without the hard part of getting elected. I don’t think that’s a particularly good thing.”
Ms Sturgeon answered questions from some onlookers who asked her if it was possible to have a “good-natured debate” about independence.
“Of course it’s possible to have a kind-hearted, civilized debate about independence, but that requires all of us to be involved,” she said.
“The only right way to decide on matters we disagree on is through democracy.”