Britain doesn’t have a codified constitution. A fudge called the ‘Crown in Parliament’ is sovereign, and everything else is just laws, which Parliament can overturn as and when it pleases.
You’d think that Scottish politicians, after a decade of constitutional drama, would have got their heads around that by now. It seems not.
In a speech today to the Fabian Society in London, Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar said he would “call for a new legal duty of cooperation between the UK and Scottish governments” – which would be little more than a way of disciplining the Scottish government.
