LABOUR has missed an “open goal” in their decision not to call for a no-confidence vote in the UK Government, according to the SNP.

After the Prime Minister set a date for when Parliament would have its so-called meaningful vote on her Brexit plan, Jeremy Corbyn tabled a no-confidence motion in her.

The motion was aimed at May and not at the Government as a whole, meaning that any loss suffered by the Prime Minister would not force a General Election under the Fixed-terms Parliament Act.

Speaking after a Scottish Conservative MP Colin Clark told Good Morning Scotland that preparations for a no-deal Brexit should have started immediately after the vote in 2016, SNP MP Stephen Gethins said it as a wasted chance.

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"Labour have missed an open goal here, a golden opportunity", said Mr Gethins.

"We're in a really desperate situation at the moment whereby we're about to fall off a no-deal Brexit cliff edge.

"Ian Blackford called for the Prime Minister to get together with leaders of all parties, rather than just trying to appeal to the DUP and the hardline Tories, and that has failed.

"The Tories failed last week, the Prime Minister came out of a disastrous council in Brussels with the other EU leaders and it's fast becoming clear that she's lost control of the situation.

"The only thing this government's got going for it at the moment is a hopeless official opposition."

May is due to meet with her Cabinet today to discuss ramping up no-deal preparations.

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Speaking earlier this morning, Clark insisted there must be a plan in place in the event of the UK departing the EU without a deal.

"No deal is far from satisfactory but ministers are making preparations and we are getting reassurance,” he said.

"I've been a businessman my entire life, contingency planning is never a waste of time or a waste of money.

"With the greatest respect to the Treasury, and I only came in here in 2017, immediately after the EU referendum they should have started making preparations and we would now be in a much more solid place to negotiate with the EU.

"I admit, we are right up to the wire, we are very close to the 29th of March. We must have contingency planning in place and ministers are acting wholly appropriately.

"I would have liked to have seen them start a lot earlier, I've been in business for a long time - I would not have left it this late".