Leaving the Eu: Scotland and Wales Continuity Bills

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 1:35 pm on 18 April 2018.

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Photo of Gavin Newlands Gavin Newlands Shadow SNP Spokesperson (Sport) 1:35, 18 April 2018

At Prime Minister’s questions, the Prime Minister said, “It is important that we recognise the independence” of another country’s judiciary. After the Conservatives lost the argument and a vote in the Scottish Parliament, does this referral not highlight the necessity of an independent Scottish judiciary with its own Supreme Court, and an independent Scottish Parliament whose democratic decisions are not undermined and overruled by a so-called equal partner Government in London?