High Noon: Sturgeon prepares to take on May over powergrab

If anyone had any doubts that Brexit posed a threat to the powers of the Scottish parliament, they need only have listened to the Tory MP Bernard Jenkin addressing the devolution conference organised last week by the Brexit think tank, UK in a Changing Europe. Not only did he say that Scotland and Wales had been “allowed to vote in our EU referendum” – gee thanks for that – he airily dismissed as “fantasy” the idea that the Scottish Parliament could lose powers and influence as a result of the EU Withdrawal Bill. Jenkin, who chairs the powerful Commons Constitutional Affairs Committee, insisted that the Scottish parliament never really had powers over matters like agriculture, and only ever implemented policies imposed by Brussels. Now that the UK was taking over from Brussels, “nationalists” had no right to insist that the powers should gravitate to Holyrood or Cardiff. Thus spoke the authentic voice of post-imperial Brexit nationalism.http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/16079143.High_Noon__Sturgeon_prepares_to_take_on_May_over_powergrab/