Scotland wasting time on constitutional disputes, says thinktank

The report argues that under the first minister, Humza Yousaf, the Scottish government suffers from ‘consultitis’. Photograph: Andrew Milligan/PA

Scotland’s devolved government has been beset by poor decision-making for the past decade because of an obsession with constitutional disputes, a thinktank says.

The report, by Gordon Brown’s Our Scottish Future thinktank, which has close ties to Labour, says much-needed reforms to public services and economic investment have been hampered by short-term decision-making and an unrelenting focus on referendums and elections.