The crisis-hit Scottish National party government on Monday unveiled plans for an independent Scotland to have a written constitution safeguarding human rights, saying these could currently be overturned at the whim of whichever political party was in power at Westminster.
Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister and SNP leader, proposed embedding rights contained in the European Convention on Human Rights in a Scottish constitution.
The constitution would also provide formal recognition for the NHS and compel a future Scottish government to “pursue” nuclear disarmament.
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