Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - media article or participation
Description
Debates about Whitehall ‘grabbing’ power from the devolved powers have surrounded the EU Withdrawal Bill since its publication. Both the Scottish and the Welsh governments have stated that they will advise their respective parliaments not to give consent to the Bill as originally drafted.
While the UK Government does not require the consent of the devolved bodies for the Bill to go through, such a vote in Cardiff and Edinburgh would come at a high political cost – and profoundly undermine the credibility of the government’s pledge to deliver a Brexit which works for all parts of the UK.