Embattled Scots Tory chief Douglas Ross has insisted Holyrood shouldn't be handed any new powers.
Ross, who is claimed to be preventing for his job amid considerations over his efficiency, known as for a "line within the sand" to be drawn on devolution.
Labour chief Keir Starmer instructed the File this 12 months that additional powers for the Parliament can be a precedence for a Authorities he led.
A plan for wide-ranging constitutional change has been drawn up by former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown, however stays unpublished.
In feedback on the Conservative convention yesterday, Ross criticised Labour’s strategy and claimed devolving extra to Holyrood can be flawed.
"For me and the Scottish Conservatives, there's a line within the sand," he mentioned.
"We completely need to make sure that Holyrood works to its maxi-mum, delivers for folks and communities throughout Scotland with the potential it has as probably the most highly effective devolved administrations anyplace on the earth.
"However Labour's plans so as to add increasingly powers is solely the flawed path to take and the Scottish Conservatives are saying let's use these powers, let's use the powers now we have proper now, a line within the sand, no additional powers have to be devolved. We simply have to get the Authorities working correctly and getting the precise priorities."
The “line within the sand” comment echoed the identical assertion by ex Scots Tory chief Ruth Davidson, who u-turned by supporting further powers after the independence referendum.
Ross added: "If Labour assume the reply to the issues of the Nationalists desirous to divide us once more is solely devolve extra powers then they've that utterly flawed.
"What we have heard from Gordon Brown, the previous Labour Prime Minister who has been tasked by Keir Starmer to give you Labour's response to the calls from the Nationalists for extra division and to separate Scotland is to simply devolve extra powers.
"I believe that's the flawed strategy. What I would love is a Scottish parliament that makes use of the immense powers it has proper now to ship for folks throughout Scotland."
Regardless of Labour’s help for enhancing Holyrood’s powers, two former social gathering leaders final week warned about specializing in the difficulty.
Jim Murphy mentioned: “Let's not fake that a debate about powers is a route again to energy.”
Lord McConnell mentioned: “We have seen an countless debate since 2007 about extra powers, which I believe is a blind alley.”
Scottish Labour structure spokesman Sarah Boyack mentioned: "The Tories have undermined devolution and been a present to the SNP. Scotland is being failed by the divisive politics of the Tories and the SNP, however Labour's plans will ship a fairer, greener, and stronger Scotland inside a renewed and reformed UK."
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