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MEP’s support for Assembly

Apr 23 2008 by Martin Shipton, Western Mail

Kay Swinburne said she was a supporter of the National Assembly getting full lawmaking powers.

“I think it’s fair to say that the Assembly as it stands has actually got Wales closer to its politicians, and therefore there’s an awful lot of good that’s coming out of the Assembly. There is no going back, and you’re not going to go back to not having an Assembly. Therefore to me it seems rather unfair that we’re now stuck where we are.

“There has to be a system, whether it’s following the Scottish model or improving upon the Scottish model, whereby the Assembly can legislate in its own right, and doesn’t have to have Westminster do its job for it.”

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