Rule change to enable Holyrood snap election could face legal battle
, said forcing an early Scottish Parliament election was “risk-free” – even if the UK Government tried to stop it from going ahead.
This would mean the SNP could easily change the rules to pave the way for an early vote in a similar fashion to the“If it were clear that the only reason for doing that one-off change was to have a one-off early election rather than a general change to the rules, if the purpose of that were to call a de facto referendum then you certainly would be vulnerable to an argument that [it] encroached upon the reserved matter of the Union,” she added.
But MacNeil, who has long expressed frustration with the cautious approach demonstrated by his party’s high command, said there were no downsides to the early Holyrood election strategy, claiming that a UK Government challenge to a poll would boost the case forHe said a move in that direction would be seen by voters as “authoritarian” and that a UK Government challenge, were the SNP to run on a single-issue manifesto, would be a “fantastic” result for the Yes cause.
“The power is there to dissolve parliament, MSPs choose to dissolve it, after it’s dissolved political parties then decide what the manifesto is, after seeing the manifesto the UK Government goes, ‘No you can’t have that election’?Prince William and Kate's Windsor food bank trip leads to 'publicity stunt' accusations
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