THE SNP getting on board with Labour’s plans for constitutional change could yield a “gold-standard referendum in four or five years”, the former chief strategist of the Yes campaign has said.
Writing in the Herald, Stephen Noon focused Gordon Brown’s plans to embed the Sewel Convention – which says Westminster will not normally legislate in devolved areas without Holyrood’s consent – in law.
Noon suggested that giving Scotland real consent, rather than one based purely on convention, was “likely” to be one of the first laws introduced by a UK Government under Keir Starmer.
