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Boris Johnson, pictured on his first visit to Edinburgh as PM in 2019, has invited Nicola Sturgeon and other first ministers for a summit Image caption: Boris Johnson, pictured on his first visit to Edinburgh as PM in 2019, has invited Nicola Sturgeon and other first ministers for a summit

Boris Johnson has written to Nicola Sturgeon and Mark Drakeford to congratulate them on their election victories and invite them to a summit on how "Team UK" can recover from the pandemic.

He said the people of the UK are “best served when we work together”.

It comes after Ms Sturgeon marked her re-election as Scotland's first minister by declaring there was "no democratic justification" for Johnson to block an independence referendum.

The prime minister earlier told the Daily Telegraph a referendum would be "irresponsible".

In his letter, he pointed to the vaccine roll-out as well as the support for jobs and businesses as successes for the union. He called on Sturgeon and Drakeford to "show the same spirit of unity and co-operation that marked our fight against the pandemic”.

A similar invitation is also being sent to the first minister and deputy first minister of Northern Ireland.