Villiers tells BIPA there will be no further devolution until after Scottish Referendum

I’ll have to get some tips off Alan about recording Audioboos at live events, since you really have to turn this one up loud to hear anything at all..

But this is the new Secretary of State telling the British Irish Parliamentary Assembly in answer to a question about the devolution of Airport and Passenger Duty to Scotland that there will be no talk of repatriating powers to Scotland until the Referendum clarifies that country’s relationship to the Union.

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