THE SNP are to force the Labour Party to vote on devolving employment law to the Scottish Parliament after Ian Murray and Anas Sarwar appeared to contradict one another on the subject.
Last week, shadow Scottish secretary Murray told the Daily Record he was not supportive of devolving more power to Holyrood.
When asked if he believed a UK Government led by the Labour Party should consider further devolution, he said: “Not personally, no.
“I think we’ve got to try and make it work better. Government need to use the powers that it’s got. I don’t think a discussion about devolution should be about individual powers anymore.
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“I think it should be about what’s currently used and how Holyrood can become much better”.
He then said he believed MSPs already had the means to incentivise higher wages.
However, Murray’s comments appear to contradict those made by Anas Sarwar back in February.
The leader of Scottish Labour told The Daily Record that he believed in entrenching policies such as scrapping anti-trade union laws and outlawing zero-hours contracts, which “can be done through devolution”.
On Tuesday, the SNP group at Westminster will introduce a ten minute rule bill to the House of Commons, which will force Labour to vote on whether or not they support devolution of employment law.
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