The Scottish affairs committee at Westminster – made up of pro-UK MPs – has suggested that the Scottish Government’s white paper on independence could be illegal.
In a new report it says the SNP administration’s prospectus for going it alone “must not use public resources in support of a party political project”.
It claims that by producing the paper as a government document ministers have “travelled outside their legal remit”.
The committee, chaired by Glasgow Labour MP Ian Davidson, says the paper, due to be published on November 26, must produce a timetable for negotiations after a Yes vote, spell out how the nation would rejoin the EU and provide further details on currency union plans.
SNP Westminster leader Angus Robertson said: “This is a shoddy report, and it is sad that a committee which is funded by the taxpayer to be a watchdog of the Westminster government has been reduced to making the absurd and demonstrably false claim that the Scottish Government has been acting illegally. Such arrogance takes the No campaign’s ‘Project Fear’ to a new low.”
