THEY say a week is a long time in politics – and this week has certainly felt it! Intent on further undermining the devolution settlement and Scottish democracy, the UK Government is pushing ahead with its flawed Retained EU Law (REUL) Bill later today.

The government’s attack on the Human Rights Act is a betrayal of those Conservatives who helped create it.

The negotiations which will set our relationship with our closest neighbours for the next generation are being rushed in a reckless game of chicken.

The PM's EU Withdrawal Agreement Bill not only drives the hardest Brexit of all, it shuts MPs out of negotiations on the UK's future relationship with the EU