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Former MP for Edinburgh North and Leith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇪🇺

Sep 17, 2020, 5 tweets

This is Tory Scottish Secretary Alister Jack saying that Scotland and Wales shouldn't be allowed to decide what to do on tackling covid -

He's giving evidence to the Scottish Affairs Committee today, you can watch it here - parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/b0…

I asked him about @AileenMcHarg point -

@AileenMcHarg His reply was simply that he's read it and he doesn't agree - no reasons, no arguments against. Experts are still not flavour of the month down Whitehall Way...

And this, at the end, is a split in the UK cabinet - Mr Jack doesn't agree with the Prime Minister that breaking international law is acceptable -

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