Leaving the EU: Devolution Settlement

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Scotland – in the House of Commons at on 8 May 2019.

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I am not sure whether the Secretary of State fully recognises the implications of accepting the Claim of Right, as he did last year. Can he really believe that 20 years after devolution, once the Brexit process is complete constitutional perfection will have been reached on these islands? Is he really channelling Charles Parnell in reverse and saying to Scotland, “Thus far shalt thou go but no further”?