Harvie: Next PM must be under pressure to grant indyref powers to Holyrood

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Scottish Green Party co-leader Patrick Harvie said the next UK Government should hand over powers to Holyrood to hold a referendum.

Scottish Green co-leader Patrick Harvie wants the next UK Government to come under ‘sustained’ and ‘unrelenting’ pressure to give Holyrood the power to hold an independence referendum

Speaking to supporters in Stirling, Mr Harvie said the Scottish Green manifesto, due to be published next week, would set out how powers currently held at Westminster could be used to “create a fairer future for all”. Mr Harvie insisted: “The next UK Government must be under immediate and sustained, unrelenting pressure to make this change.Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour Party seems ‘entirely absent’ of ‘determination and commitment’ Mr Harvie claimed

But he added: “Labour seem to threaten more of the same, from anti-immigrant rhetoric to transphobia.”

 

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