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Lord suggests UK Government should cut Scotland's budget due to 'illegal spending'

Lord George Foulkes has spoken previously about cutting Scotland's budget

A MEMBER of the House of Lords has said that the UK Government should cut Scotland’s budget after suggesting it was “illegally spending money on reserved areas.”

In a column in The Mail on Sunday Lord George Foulkes, a former Labour Scotland Office minister, said the Scottish Government was spending money on reserved areas including “the cost of publications preparing for a second independence referendum which will not take place.”

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