Prime minister’s commitment to defence spending questioned by Tory MP after statement last week
Labour says it wants England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to meet as equals in new devolution cooperation body, the Scottish Labour leader, on Scotland and constitutional reform this morning. And here are the highlights., Wales and Northern Ireland to be represented as equals in a new devolution cooperation body.First, we are proposing a legal duty to cooperate. This would require joint working between governments in areas of shared interest.
Instead, the joint governance councils we are proposing, would be set out in statute and replace the consultative joint ministerial committees, which have failed and collapsed. They would be designed so that every nation operates as an equal. They would bring together the leaders of the UK and the nations on an equal footing, with a finance council to explore the economic challenges we collectively face and a trade council to unlock opportunity and growth.
He claimed all layers of government in the UK were flawed, not just Westminster. More devolution was needed, he claimed.Labour will always be the party which champions devolution. Today, that is more important than ever when we are up against two parties that want to end it – the SNP in Edinburgh and the Tories here in London, whose leader, Boris Johnson, called it a “disaster”.
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