Lady Haldane’s decision will disappoint LGBTQ+ campaigners and offers a boost to Rishi Sunak at the end of a difficult week
Downing Street’s unprecedented veto of Holyrood’s contentious gender recognition reform bill was lawful, a judge has ruled.
In a ruling that will disappoint LGBTQ+ campaigners and offers a boost to Rishi Sunak at the end of a difficult week, Lady Haldane rejected the Scottish government’s petition to rule the UK government’s section 35 veto – contained in the 1998 Scotland Act, which created the devolved parliament – as unlawful.
