{"id":41858,"date":"2018-05-16T07:50:18","date_gmt":"2018-05-16T06:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=41858"},"modified":"2018-05-16T07:50:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T06:50:18","slug":"at-least-one-parliament-in-the-uk-realises-where-its-duty-lies-its-just-a-shame-its-not-the-one-at-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/16\/at-least-one-parliament-in-the-uk-realises-where-its-duty-lies-its-just-a-shame-its-not-the-one-at-westminster\/","title":{"rendered":"At least one parliament in the UK realises where its duty lies. It&#8217;s just a shame it&#8217;s not the one at Westminster.\u00c2\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politicshome.com\/news\/uk\/constitution\/scottish-parliament\/news\/95194\/government-triggers-constitutional-crisis-vow?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MON-FRI%20Breakfast%20Briefing%20%20Events%20box%20copy&amp;utm_content=MON-FRI%20Breakfast%20Briefing%20%20Events%20box%20copy+CID_5409fd4a6c37688201d5941c18f06e37&amp;utm_source=Email%20newsletters&amp;utm_term=Government%20triggers%20constitutional%20crisis%20with%20vow%20to%20over-rule%20Holyrood%20over%20Brexit%20bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Politics\u00a0Home<\/a> has reported:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>MSPs voted 93-30 not to give legislative content to the EU Withdrawal Bill, which the Government says is essential to prevent legal chaos on day one of Brexit.<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish government has accused the Conservatives of a \"power grab\" because it will mean some areas which are currently devolved will initially come under Westminster control when they are returned from Brussels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A commentator asked on this blog who now was representing the 48% who voted to remain in the EU. I think the answer is 'Scotland'. And not just a party in Scotland: a cross-party\u00a0coalition in Scotland is doing so; the Tories being the exceptions, of course.<\/p>\n<p>At least one parliament in the UK realises where its duty lies. It's just a shame it's not the one at Westminster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Politics\u00a0Home has reported: MSPs voted 93-30 not to give legislative content to the EU Withdrawal Bill, which the Government says is essential to prevent<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2018\/05\/16\/at-least-one-parliament-in-the-uk-realises-where-its-duty-lies-its-just-a-shame-its-not-the-one-at-westminster\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,140],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-scotland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41858","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}