UK ministers will consider imposing “sanctions” on the Scottish government for spending taxpayers’ money on pushing for independence.
Baroness Neville-Rolfe, a Cabinet Office minister, said she would examine the possibility of taking unspecified measures against her Holyrood counterparts for taking forward policies outside of the devolution settlement. She said that new measures would be looked at during an update to the cabinet manual, which is effectively the UK government’s rulebook.
A new draft of the manual, which guides officials and ministers on constitutional issues, is expected in the autumn. The last version was published in 2011, the year the SNP won a majority at Holyrood and the constitutional view of the UK was altered through how the nationalists governed, as well as the 2014 independence
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