NICOLA Sturgeon and Carwyn Jones demand that Theresa May alters the Brexit Bill to protect devolution (The National, September 20). In January, the PM said: “We must strengthen the precious Union between the four nations of the United Kingdom. We will work very carefully to ensure that the right powers are returned to Westminster and the right powers are passed to the devolved administrations.”
Surely this is the time to make use of our precious Union of four equal partners and set up a commission from the four to oversee the production of common standards where required, these mutually agreed standards could then be passed through all of the UK parliaments to make them binding throughout the Union?
Carried out in a spirit of co-operation for mutual benefit, this would be a chance to undo some of the damage created by David Cameron’s announcement of EVEL on the day after the independence referendum and further “a Union in which Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England continue to flourish side-by-side as equal partners” as envisaged by Theresa May at the Scottish Tory Conference in 2012.
John Jamieson
South Queensferry
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