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Significant milestone on road to constitutional change

HUMILIATING climbdown, or the most dramatic transfer of powers from Westminster in the history of the United Kingdom?

The legislative consent given to the Scotland Bill by the Scottish Parliament yesterday could not be described as dramatic. Instead, it was the pragmatic acceptance by the SNP of its folly in spurning the additional powers the Bill provides, despite it not incorporating five of the six demands made by Alex Salmond following his election victory last year.

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