Nicola Sturgeon says her government will ‘vigorously defend’ legislation by seeking judicial review of decision
The UK and Scottish governments appear set on a court battle on constitutional powers after Westminster ministers formally blocked a law passed by Scotland’s parliament creating a self-identification system for people who want to change gender., the Scottish secretary, would “inevitably end up in court”. Announcing the decision to the Commons, Jack also said he expected the issue to be decided this way.
But in near-farcical scenes, both debates took place before most MPs had been able read the “statement of reasons” in which the UK government set out its legal basis for imposing section 35, which was published nearly two hours after Jack’s announcement. She said the UK government had failed to share its concerns with her government until December, in a belated reply to a letter Robison wrote in October, after which a last-minute meeting with the UK equalities minister, Kemi Badenoch, was arranged.
Jack and Badenoch have both argued it waters down protections for single-sex spaces and contravenes UK-wide equality legislation by imposing a different regime for just one devolved country.
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