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Scotland Act 1998

I should like to make some progress if that is all right. I have a lot to get through. I shall give way to the hon. Lady later. We are where we are and we are trying to move forward. After the Scottish group meeting, the hapless Minister was dispatched. His call was to inform the Scottish press. In his best Kelvin MacKenzie-speak, the Minister said that no one was interested in further constitutional change other than the ““McChattering classes””—an odious and offensive term. Had it been used by the metropolitan press—