A NORTH-east MSP has claimed businesses and households in the region are suffering due to the effects of Brexit.

The SNP has branded the Tory UK Government as 'dangerously out of touch with Scotland's fishing sector' after the Tory Prime Minister refused to accept the damage Brexit has inflicted on the industry.

SCOTTISH Tory MSPs refused to recognise the impact of Brexit on Scotland during a Holyrood debate yesterday – and defended the UK Government’s decision to leave the Erasmus scheme.

BREXIT has caused the UK economy to spin in a "downward spiral", a north-east MSP has said.