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Firstly, it's legality is not in dispute and Holyrood's competence to legislate on it is not in dispute either. If it were the UK gov would be using section 33 of the Scotland act. Section 35 gives them a veto:



Clearly (b) is in play but it's a practical implementation based judgment, not a letter of the law one.

Secondly, Starmer should be standing behind his Scot Lab colleagues who notwithstanding some dissenters voted as a party for this legislation, whatever his personal feelings on the issue.
Semantics again. If they lose the court case will you say fair enough it wasn't competent.

Starmer is correct in waiting for the courts to decide