An SNP MP took inspiration from Trainspotting as she delivered a blistering attack on the Conservative Government and Brexit.

Speaking on Wednesday during the Commons debate on triggering Article 50, which will begin the process of leaving the EU, Hannah Bardell said she wanted to pay tribute to Irvine Welsh, Danny Boyle and Ewan McGregor.

The Livingston MP went on to address the House in a speech that bore more than a passing resemblance to the opening scene of the hit 1996 film.

She said: "Choose Brexit. Choose making up numbers from thin air about the NHS and plastering them on the side of buses. Choose racist and xenophobic sentiments seeping out from some corners of the Leave campaign.

"Choose hate crime rising by over 40% and LGBT hate crime by 150% in England and Wales following the Brexit vote.

"Choose taking the people of our nations to the polls on one of the most important issues of a generation with nothing written down and no plan.

"Choose ignoring the interests of the people of Scotland and my constituents in Livingston despite the fact they voted overwhelmingly to Remain in the EU.

"Choose leaving the single market, risking 80,000 Scottish jobs within a decade and costing the people of Scotland an average of £2,000 a year in wages.

"Choose lowering Scotland's GDP by more than £10bn and Scotland's exports by more than £5bn.

"Choose vital EU worker status being under threat with widespread uncertainty to family, businesses, and the economy.

"Choose risking our international standing in the academic research and innovation communities as we lose access to funding, expertise, and people in the EU.

"Choose walking away from the European Medicines Association and Euratom without any detail or thought of the impact.

"Choose the great Brexit power grab, taking back control of straight bananas.

"Choose returning to the Thatcher era of poverty and austerity. Choose the UK turning its back on Europe.

"These, Mr Speaker, are not the choices that the Scottish people made."

Despite Ms Bardell's efforts, an SNP bid to stop Theresa May from starting formal Brexit talks was defeated by MPs by a vote of 336 to 100.

A second vote on whether the Bill should be given a second reading, and therefore clear its first Commons hurdle, is ongoing.

Ministers want to start the formal two-year talks on Britain's withdrawal from the EU by the end of March.