Brown: Keep Scotland in by ceding power
FORMER Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called for greater devolution for Scotland, in a bid to prevent the break-up of the United Kingdom later this year.
The MP for Kirkcaldy and Cowdenbeath said in a speech yesterday that the Scottish parliament should be given more power over employment, health, transport and the economy; with a constitutional agreement to determine the pooling of resources for defence, security and wellbeing between London and Edinburgh.
He warned that only a full-scale renegotiation of the union would end the “permanent stand off” between MPs in Westminster and Holyrood.
The former chancellor also accused Scottish National Party leader Alex Salmond of “peddling a fiction” by telling voters an independent Scotland would be able to keep the pound.