Brexit Bulletin—Scottish Parliament urged not to consent to the UK Internal Market Bill

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Holyrood’s Finance & Constitution Committee has, in a letter, recommended to the Scottish Parliament that it should not consent to the United Kingdom Internal Market Bill. In the letter, which set out the findings of the committee’s scrutiny of the UK Internal Market Bill, the convenor of the committee, Bruce Crawford MSP, expressed ‘dismay’ at the UK government’s ‘”hierarchical” approach which will impose new limitations on devolution that go “way beyond” the previous limitations of EU membership’. The committee also added that ‘devolution cannot work on the basis of the Westminster Government imposing its views on how the UK’s constitutional arrangements should evolve’ post-Brexit.