Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has criticized the UK government's plan to make ‘English votes for English laws (Evel)’ as “totally unacceptable.”
Sturgeon has said the UK government's plan to make ‘English votes for English laws’ is unacceptable and has called for more debate over the controversial proposal.
She is now calling for more talks to discuss the concerns the Scottish government has over the proposal. Critics of the proposal say it would be very difficult to determine what laws would be deemed as English.
Now Joshua Brown, campaigner with the Socialist Workers Party, says the UK government plan, Evel, is “a punishment for the near breakup of the British state during the Scottish independence referendum” last year.
The comments follow a letter by Sturgeon to the Scottish Secretary, David Mundell, where she wrote, “There is a clear Scottish interest in English votes for English laws because of the impact it will have, and the proposals, as they currently stand, are unacceptable.”
She said of the 20 bills listed by the UK government that would not extend to Scotland, 13 of them in reality did.
The UK government believes that the bills which apply exclusively to England should not become law until there has been explicit consent from the MPs in English constituencies.
Some ministers, however, think it is unfair that Scottish MPs can vote on issues like health and education that affect England, but English MPs do not have the same say on similar things that affect Scotland due to the devolution of the Scottish parliament.
Yet, critics dismiss the argument and say that many laws are interlinked and what is being called an English law would in fact impact Scotland.
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