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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Neil Pooran

‘Unanswerable’ case for legal safeguards on devolution, MSPs told

PA Wire

There is an “unanswerable” case to strengthen legal protections for devolved legislatures following Brexit, MSPs have heard.

Professor Jim Gallagher, a former senior civil servant and academic, said the Sewel convention should be given statutory force in the wake of post-Brexit laws like the Internal Market Act (IMA).

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