Early day motion tabled by primary sponsor Alex Salmond (Scottish National Party), on Wednesday, 17 January 1990, in the House of Commons. It is signed by 2 members in total.

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The Constitutional Convention and the Union

That this House notes the remarkable admission on the BBC television programme "Left, Right and Centre" on Friday 12th January by Cannon Kenyon Wright, Chairman of the Scottish Convention Business Committee, that he was 'as much a unionist as Michael Forsyth'; notes that Labour's Scottish Executive seem to have jettisoned their convention declaration of last year that the Scottish people are sovereign in favour of support for the sovereignty of this Parliament; questions whether a movement for constitutional change can seriously be led by someone who claims to match even the honourable Member for Stirling's commitment as a unionist, or by the leadership of a political party so hopelessly thurled to the Westminster system; and now looks forward to agreement between convention parties on a devolution scheme so that this can be properly judged by the Scottish people against the Scottish Nationalist Party policy of independence within the European Community.

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Secondary information

Type

Early day motion

Reference

329 

Session

1989-90

Subjects

Devolution Scotland Sovereignty Labour Scottish Constitutional Convention

Link

View this Early day motion on www.parliament.uk