INDEPENDENCE supporting MSPs must change Holyrood’s rules and call an early election to be used as a de facto vote, an SNP MP has urged.
Angus MacNeil, who represents Na h-Eileanan an Iar in Westminster, said forcing an early Scottish Parliament election was “risk-free” – even if the UK Government tried to stop it from going ahead.
But Aileen McHarg, professor of public law at Durham University, said the tactic could be legally risky and potentially open to a challenge from the UK Government that the Edinburgh administration was treading on reserved matters.
