Stephen Flynn (Aberdeen South) (SNP):...It is important when we
look at the wider discussion of the Queen’s Speech to reflect on
what it actually means. Of course, it is the Government’s
legislative programme—a programme that they believe they have a
mandate to put forward, and a mandate that the Conservatives got in
the 2019 general election, when they won 365 seats in this place on
43% of the vote. Of course, in the 2019 general election they won
just 25% of the vote in Scotland and...Request free trial
(Aberdeen South) (SNP):...It is important
when we look at the wider discussion of the Queen’s Speech to
reflect on what it actually means. Of course, it is the
Government’s legislative programme—a programme that they believe
they have a mandate to put forward, and a mandate that the
Conservatives got in the 2019 general election, when they won 365
seats in this place on 43% of the vote. Of course, in the 2019
general election they won just 25% of the vote in Scotland and hold
just six Scottish seats in this House, yet over the last year we
have seen the UK Government use that mandate to drag us out of the
European Union against our express wishes. They introduced the
United Kingdom Internal Market Act 2020 to ride roughshod over
devolution, alongside the levelling-up fund and the shared
prosperity fund—all a blatant attack on devolution. It is
not just us nationalists saying that; it is the Labour party in
Wales as well, because it is cognisant of the fact that the Welsh
Assembly is also under attack...
