‘Wrecking ball’ to devolution

Sir, – Over the last week or two we have heard Tory MPS Douglas Ross, Alister Jack and Iain Stewart all reciting Boris Johnson’s

fairytale regarding his Internal Market Bill by maintaining it is not a power grab designed to undermine the devolved parliaments.

When BBC presenter Laura Maxwell pointed out to Mr Stewart that the Bill was widely

seen as ‘taking powers from the devolved governments and centralising them in London’, the Scottish Office minister was unable to offer any rebuttal.

In a development which makes the

Tories’ assertions about the Bill look even more ridiculous and preposterous, David Melding, a Conservative member of the Welsh Parliament, resigned from his shadow ministerial post in protest at the Bill which

he believed would undermine devolution in Wales.

The IMB is a ‘wrecking ball’ as far as the devolved parliaments are concerned and it is time we had a little honesty about it from our Tory representatives.

Alan Woodcock. Osborne Place, Dundee.