{"id":1997,"date":"2020-10-07T19:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/?p=1997"},"modified":"2020-10-07T19:54:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T19:54:41","slug":"scottish-parliament-rejects-consent-for-internal-market-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/scottish-parliament-rejects-consent-for-internal-market-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Scottish Parliament rejects consent for Internal Market Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament rejects consent for \u201cdeeply damaging\u201d Bill.<\/p>\n<p>The Internal Market Bill should be withdrawn by the UK Government after consent for it was denied by a majority of the Scottish Parliament, Constitution Secretary Michael Russell has said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>MSPs backed the Scottish Government\u2019s Legislative Consent Memorandum, which states the Bill threatens devolution and breaches international law.<\/p>\n<p>The constitutional convention is that the Westminster Parliament should not legislate in devolved areas without the Scottish Parliament\u2019s consent.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The Internal Market Bill should now be withdrawn by the UK Government after consent for it was denied by an overwhelming majority of the Scottish Parliament, Constitution Secretary Michael Russell <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Feorlean?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Feorlean<\/a> has said. &#x27a1;&#xfe0f;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/zTR9js1MSL\">https:\/\/t.co\/zTR9js1MSL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Yqx2qUvTqq\">pic.twitter.com\/Yqx2qUvTqq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; ScotGovEurope (@ScotGovEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ScotGovEurope\/status\/1313897986263592961?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<p><strong>(This article is replicated from the gov.scot website on 7 Oct 2020)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Constitution Secretary Michael Russell said:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scottish Parliament has explicitly \u2013 and comprehensively \u2013 rejected consent to the Internal Market Bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs far as Scotland is concerned, today\u2019s strong endorsement of the Scottish Government\u2019s stance means this unnecessary Bill should now be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed no member of the Scottish Parliament who cared about its powers and the wishes of the people of Scotland could have possibly consented to this Bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Internal Market Bill is an unprecedented threat to the Scottish Parliament\u2019s powers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt also means that if lower food and environmental standards are allowed elsewhere in the UK it will force Scotland to accept these standards regardless of any laws passed at Holyrood. The Bill will also mean the UK Government taking control of key devolved spending powers, and the devolved policy area of state aid.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUK Government ministers have already accepted the Bill will break international law &#8211; it would now be outrageous if they decided also to shatter the constitutional convention that the Westminster Parliament does not legislate in devolved areas without consent. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scottish Parliament has overwhelmingly backed this Government\u2019s rejection of the Bill. Now we urge the UK Government, once again, to abandon this deeply damaging Bill.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/internal-market-bill-should-be-abandoned\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.gov.scot\/news\/internal-market-bill-should-be-abandoned\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Parliament rejects consent for \u201cdeeply damaging\u201d Bill. The Internal Market Bill should be withdrawn by the UK Government after consent for it was denied by a majority of the Scottish Parliament, Constitution Secretary Michael Russell has said. MSPs backed the Scottish Government\u2019s Legislative Consent Memorandum, which states the Bill threatens devolution and breaches international law. The constitutional convention is that the Westminster Parliament should not legislate in devolved areas without the Scottish Parliament\u2019s consent. The Internal Market Bill should now be withdrawn by the UK Government after consent for it&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1998,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1997"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1999,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1997\/revisions\/1999"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imadscotlandgroup.com\/media\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}