{"id":64149,"date":"2015-11-13T15:30:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=e5db3ff0228727589d7bbce0dd410f56"},"modified":"2015-11-13T15:30:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T15:30:52","slug":"press-release-pm-the-smith-commission-has-been-delivered-in-full","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=64149","title":{"rendered":"Press release: PM: The Smith Commission has been delivered in full"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Prime Minister gave a brief interview following Lord Smith\u2019s comments that the Scotland Bill honours the agreement brokered during the Smith Commission.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"question\">Question<\/h3>\n<p>So, what\u2019s your reaction to Lord Smith\u2019s comments &#8211; the SNP wouldn\u2019t agree that the Scotland Bill delivers?<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"prime-minister\">Prime Minister<\/h3>\n<p>Well this is a very big day for Scotland. Lord Smith himself has confirmed that the Smith Commission has been delivered in full. A vow was made, a vow was kept. Scotland will have that powerhouse Parliament. Now the debate can shift to how those powers should be used, that\u2019s the debate that now needs to start.<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"question-1\">Question<\/h3>\n<p>Is more devolution over things like abortion unequivocally a good thing?<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"prime-minister-1\">Prime Minister<\/h3>\n<p>Well Scotland wanted more devolution, the Smith Commission was set up to deliver more devolution and Lord Smith has now unequivocally said that Smith has been delivered. Smith confirms Smith. That\u2019s the big story and it\u2019s an important story because it means the vow about the powerhouse Parliament is a vow that has been kept, in full. Now there can be a debate in Scotland about which powers to use, what to do with taxes, what to do with benefits, that\u2019s the debate that can now take place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister comments on Lord Smith&#8217;s decision that the Scotland Bill delivers Smith Commission agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64149"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64149\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}