'When it comes to the new powers Brown thinks should be thrown Holyrood’s way, the report has barely any fizz at all' // Andrew Tickell (PeatWorrier)
has committed to holding a consultation on updating the Scottish Government’s capital borrowing ceiling, I’ve changed my mind.”
Read the 40 recommendations with an unsentimental eye, and it becomes obvious that Brown’s proposals are padded out with double – and sometimes – triple-counting to create the illusion that a thunderous battery of changes to devolved powers in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland are being proposed. But that sound you’re hearing is the wet fizz of a damp squib.
Everything else Brown might have said about the contested borderline between reserved and devolved powers is either missing, hedged or “to be consulted on”. Two of the recommendations – on parliamentary privilege and support for elected mayors – are actually already within Holyrood’s legislative competence.
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