Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Angus Brendan MacNeil Excerpts
Wednesday 25th January 2012

(12 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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I call Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil. [Interruption.]

Angus Brendan MacNeil Portrait Mr Angus Brendan MacNeil (Na h-Eileanan an Iar) (SNP)
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Q2. It seems, Mr Speaker, that the SNP gets more reaction from Labour than their own Leader does. Does the Prime Minister agree that in Scotland the people are sovereign, and therefore for improvement they have the right to determine their own constitutional future as they see fit?

Lord Cameron of Chipping Norton Portrait The Prime Minister
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Of course this is an issue for the people of Scotland, and I think we should bring forward the date when we put to the Scottish people the question of whether they want to stay in the United Kingdom—which I dearly hope that they do—or to leave the United Kingdom. But the point that everyone needs to understand is that options for further devolution—options for changes across the United Kingdom—are matters for all of the United Kingdom, and matters that all of the United Kingdom should rightly discuss.