yes. so, in summary, what is it? so, what happened was, last month, the scottish parliament, by a pretty big majority, passed this legislation and the legislation, this gender bill, seeks to remove administrative and medical barriers to changing the sex on your birth certificate. that s basically what it does. it s passed the scottish parliament and it was waiting to be given the rubber stamp by the king, royal assent. but, crucially, while the issue of trans rights is devolved to the scottish parliament, the issue of equalities is something that s decided at westminster on behalf of england, scotland and wales and the uk government says, hang on a minute, we think those two clash. and there s a line in the rule book that set up devolution a quarter of a century ago that allows us, they say, to pull this trigger and stop that proposed law becoming law and getting royal assent. that s what they ve done and it s caused one heck of a row. right, well, let s chat a bit more a
yes, unfortunately it is. i think a lot of people upset hearing results really because they are seeing this narrative of huge energy company profits while they are paying high amounts the gas and electricity in their homes. and with the exception of centrica i think mostly these are different companies. the windfall tax that you mentioned, unfortunately, is actually harming british interests in the sense that it s reducing oil and gas production in the north sea. we saw how the energy, which is the largest independent operator in the region announcing job losses and attributing that to the windfall tax. it s a difficult region to continue to exploit and companies canjust go continue to exploit and companies can just go elsewhere so if we want to develop our domestic industry instead of importing, the windfall tax is very helpful. what about this question of the competition rules? should the government look are trying to change those? b. government look are trying to change those? .,
chris, with mhairi black, deputy leader of the scottish national party in the house of commons. hi, mhairi. hello, how you doing? welcome. yes, welcome, welcome. right, so, to business. where to start. i know, it s been busy. yeah. but the main thing is this, isn t it, westminster has vetoed a bill of the scottish parliament using this particular mechanism for the first time ever? yes. what do you make of it? i think it s disgraceful, absolutely. i mean, especially considering that in the nearly eight years that i ve been in parliament, all that we get flung back at us is, you have the most powerful devolved parliament in the world. well, do we? if when we pass something which is absolutely within the devolved competence of the scottish parliament that westminster, who is a tory government, which again scotland hasn t voted for, canjust go, ah, no, you re not passing that. i suppose when you say absolutely within the devolved competence, that s the essence of the row, isn t it, whether