understood that Mr Raab did separately meet Mick Antoniw, the Wales counsel general, its chief legal

SNP ministers at Holyrood and Labour chiefs at Cardiff have slated the UK Government's Elections Bill, which would come into effect from September 2022.... John Swinney, Scotland’s Deputy First Minister lodged a legislative consent memorandum in the Scottish Parliament on Friday on behalf of the SNP-led Scottish Government.He said: “ The Scottish Government considers that there is no evidence of significant electoral fraud to justify voter ID measures in Scotland.” Mr Swinney stressed it would

The Labour-led Welsh Government has been given permission to lodge a judicial review against the UK Government’s UK Internal Market Bill. The UK Government passed the UK Internal Market Bill as a solution to creating a secure platform for UK trade after Britain fully cut ties with the EU. Under the legislation, measures that were previously managed by the EU would be passed to the devolved administrations at Holyrood, Cardiff and Stormont.Up to 160 policy areas including animal welfare, public p

Cabinet ministers have turned up the rhetoric in a bid to push Brussels into concessions over the Northern Ireland Protocol by warning of possible disruption to peace in the region without changes.... In a joint article in the Irish Times, Brexitminister Lord Frost and Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis said this week's extension of a grace period in the so-called sausage war was" welcome" but that the extension" addresses only a small part of the underlying problem". The pair warned the