Liz Truss said the best way to deal with Nicola Sturgeon was to ignore her. It was one policy the outgoing Tory leader managed to stick to - she never had a formal meeting with the First Minister during her time in Downing Street.
12.10.2022 - 18:52 / dailyrecord.co.uk
Judges in the Supreme Court heard evidence for and against First Minster Nicola Sturgeon's plan to hold a second independence referendum for the second and final day today.
James Eadie KC, representing the Advocate General for Scotland, continued his arguments before a panel of five justices on Wednesday morning.
During his submission to the court he argued the Scottish Government should not have "farmed out" the referendum Bill to the UK's top court. While in the afternoon session the Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain, representing the Scottish Government, said her reference over the issue of a referendum was not raised "on a whim or willy-nilly".
Judges have been asked to decide whether the Bill relates to "reserved matters" - meaning it is outwith Holyrood's competence.
At the start of the hearing on Tuesday the president of the court Lord Reed said the outcome of the case would not be communicated for "some months".
So, here's all you need to know from the second and last day of the hearing:
The question of whether a bill is within the legislative competence of the Scottish Parliament should not be "farmed out" to the Supreme Court, justices were told.
Sir James Eadie KC, continuing arguments on behalf of the Advocate General for Scotland, told the court that a person in charge of a bill at Holyrood must make a "positive" statement that it is within the competence of the Scottish Parliament.
The barrister said this was part of the "pre-legislative safeguards" that exist in law, and with the UK Parliament including such a provision so that someone in charge of a bill can "pin their colours to the public mast on competence".
"It is for the person in charge of the bill to form that view," he said, adding that it was not "simply
Liz Truss said the best way to deal with Nicola Sturgeon was to ignore her. It was one policy the outgoing Tory leader managed to stick to - she never had a formal meeting with the First Minister during her time in Downing Street.
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SNP ministers have been accused of "farming out" IndyRef2 legislation to the Supreme Court because they didn't like answers from their top law officer.
Married At First Sight UK's Kwame Badu has for the first time revealed the real reason why he did not want to jump into bed with his wife Kasia London. Father-of-two Kwame faced a backlash for ‘fat shaming’ Kasia, 36, throughout the dating experiment as viewers of the Channel 4 reality show criticised him for repeatedly saying his usual type of woman was ‘petite’. But business consultant Kwame, 42, has hit back at the claims - saying he did find Kasia attractive and he was "suffering" because he wanted to be "sexually active".
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