Rishi Sunak rules out more powers for Scottish Parliament amid chaotic press conference
Rishi Sunak ruled out devolving more powers to the Scottish Parliament in a speech to Tory members in Glasgow today.
The Conservative leader's media team had initially tried to shut out several newspapers, including the Record, from a press conference after his speech at the SEC. The Prime Minister highlighted £1 billion being spent in Scotland as part of his Government’s levelling up agenda, and plans to create two new freeports north of the border."Under my leadership we will never, ever forget we are the Conservative and Unionist Party, and working together, all of us proudly as Conservatives, we will deliver for each and every part of our precious union," he said.
"Local councils are really keen to engage directly with the UK Government, they know what their priorities are, more so than Nicola Sturgeon and the SNP do.He contrasted the actions of his party with the SNP Scottish Government and its “record of failure”. Sunak said: “If the SNP can’t sort out the mess Nicola Sturgeon left their party, how on earth can they sort out the mess Nicola Sturgeon has left Scotland’s public services in?
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