Scottish Secretary/Barnett
March 12, 2010 by David Torrance
An interesting debate in the House of Lords today on the Barnett Formula, including a speech by the former Scottish Secretary, Ian Lang, in which he said that the position of Secretary of State for Scotland ‘no longer has any influence in the Cabinet’, ‘pads out the Cabinet’ and that ‘the position defies credibility’. Strong stuff, and certainly not the Conservative Party line.
Fittingly, perhaps, the most recent Public Finance magazine has an excellent article by David Scott on the post of Scottish Secretary, in which I am quoted.
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