Labour calls for 'legal duty of cooperation' between the UK and Scottish governments

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Anas Sarwar will today announce there should be a “legal duty of cooperation” between the UK and Scottish Governments to ease division.The Scottish Labour leader will speak at an event in London and is set to criticise both the SNP and the Tories for trying to benefit from “a political climate which seeks to maximise disagreements and disordered relationships”.Sarwar will also insist that First Minister Nicola Sturgeon’s renewed push to hold a second referendum on independence next year is “a distraction from the SNP’s failures in government”.In his fortnightly Monday column for the Record, Sarwar said: “The truth the Tories and the SNP don’t want to talk about is constitutional politics can never end poverty or inequality.“It doesn’t put food on the table, build any schools, or train any nurses.

It cannot, alone, build a better nation."But when both of Scotland’s governments stand to gain politically from the chaos of division, it means bad government thrives and people pay the price.“I will call for a new legal duty of cooperation between the UK and Scottish Governments, and structures to ensure they work together where they can and not against each other."We are proposing new models of inter-government working designed to heal the bad relationship that exist.” To sign up to the Daily Record Politics newsletter, click here. New Scottish independence poll finds more than half do not want referendum next year Liz Truss slams Bernie Ecclestone after he says he would ‘take bullet’ for Vladimir Putin