SNP Westminster leader Stephen Flynn has written to the head of the civil service raising concerns that the UK government is “exerting ever tighter control on Scotland’s national democratic institutions”.
Flynn, who says Westminster is seeking to “stop the Scottish government from carrying out the work it was elected to do” with regards to a second independence referendum, wrote to Simon Case, the cabinet secretary.
It comes in the wake of comments from Case that civil servants in Scotland could be issued with new guidance on the issue within “weeks”.
Scottish government spending on the independence minister is being investigated by the advocate general for Scotland, Lord Stewart of Dirleton, the UK government’s top adviser on Scots law.
Flynn stressed the “democratic decision” made by