A TORY MSP has raised eyebrows after she suggested Scotland’s parliament only had the right to pass legislation if it was “good law”.
Rachael Hamilton (below), the MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, made the comment on Channel 4 News while discussing the UK Government’s unprecedented step of blocking Scotland’s gender recognition reforms.
Asked whether the inevitability of the matter ending up in court was a “failure of democracy”, Hamilton said: “We need to make sure the law works right across the whole of the UK and the Scottish Parliament have already passed around 350 of their own accord that have been perfectly acceptable with the UK Government, so therefore, they have the right to pass their own laws if they make good law.”
