A leading Tory Brexiteer has called for devolution to be "rolled back" and the Welsh Government to be stripped of its powers. Writing in his column in The Telegraph Lord David Frost claimed that devolution has led to the "creation of closed-shop fiefdoms, effective one-party states" and added that it needed to stop.
Describing Wales as one such "tinpot amateurish" example, he added that devolution was meant to be about "enabling powers to be exercised closer to the people in a more practical and accountable way." Instead he accused the UK Government of having been "supine in policing the boundaries of devolved powers".
Initially concentrating on the current situation in Scotland where Humza Yousaf recently replaced Nicola Sturgeon as the country's First Minister and leader of the SNP, Lord Frost stated that ministers needed to act in order to 'fix things'. "They should make clear that, if re-elected, they will review and roll back some currently devolved powers," wrote 58-year-old peer.
