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Politics and personalities driving intergovernmental tensions, MPs are told

“POLITICS and personalities” have soured relations between the Scottish and Westminster governments, a parliamentary committee has heard.

The Scottish affairs select committee took evidence from three former Labour secretaries of state for Scotland on Monday as it examined intergovernmental relations since devolution.

Former MP for Paisley & Renfrewshire South Douglas Alexander, told the hearing: “I struggle to identify a single area of Scottish public life that has got significantly better in recent years.

“It looks like a reprimand to a naughty schoolboy, and I’m hoping that Humza Yousaf can have an early meeting with David Cameron where I’m hoping that David Cameron will be as amenable and positive as he was on non-party political matters to me 10 years ago,” he said.

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