I will give way in a minute. Clearly that was a change in Scotland’s status in the United Kingdom. Clearly it was highly material to the vote people had just had. Should not the people of Scotland have been told prior to the referendum, which was on Scotland’s status in the United Kingdom, that the downgrading of Scottish representation in Westminster was one of the proposals that he now wishes to make to the people of the country?
Devolution (Scotland Referendum)
Proceeding contribution from
Gordon Brown
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 14 October 2014.
It occurred during Debate on Devolution (Scotland Referendum).
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