Carlaw admits Scots Tories

will use a speech in Latin America today to dismiss claims of a Brexit “power grab” and call on the Scottish Government to “decouple” the issue of Brexit from the threat of a second independence referendum.

A joint list of amendments is set to be published by the Scottish and Welsh governments ahead of a major speech on Brexit policy in Florence on Friday.

Mr Carlaw and the Scottish Conservative constitution spokesman Adam Tomkins will meet the Scottish Government’s Brexit minister, Michael Russell, to discuss the changes that Edinburgh and Cardiff are set to demand.

The meeting follows an outbreak of co-operation at Holyrood last week, with Mr Carlaw offering to broker an agreement between Edinburgh and London on thorny Brexit issues.

Both devolved government have threatened to vote against a legislative consent motion (LCM) on the Repeal Bill unless their demands are 0 Jackson Carlaw said the Tories could work with SNP met, which would trigger an unprecedented constitutional crisis. Asked in a BBC interview yesterday