Scotland: Constitutional Settlement — Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 2:37 pm on 10 March 2015.

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Photo of Lord Lexden Lord Lexden Conservative 2:37, 10 March 2015

Can my noble and learned friend explain how the Government’s proposals will provide a basis for an enduring settlement when the Scottish National Party is demanding yet further concessions? Is it not obvious that we need a new constitutional settlement, an explicitly unionist settlement, for our entire country, not further piecemeal changes in different parts of it, devised with short, artificial deadlines? When will our national leaders of all parties summon up the eloquence and conviction that is needed to make the case for an enduring union, which so many of us in this House, in the other place and throughout our country hold so dear?

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