Douglas Alexander: “I've always believed to be pro-Scottish, you don't need to be anti-English. We should be bigger and more generous than…”

Our predecessors, the Conservatives, made such a mess of the process of approval, both for Jackdaw and Rosebank, that they ended up in court.

I’m careful in what I say publicly because we don’t want to make the same mistakes as our Conservative predecessors, which led to the whole programme being delayed as a consequence of judicial challenge.

Devolution has done a great deal, but power was never supposed to stop at the doors of the Scottish Parliament.

The Prime Minister’s offer to the Scottish Government is a genuine one, and the Scotland Office is ready to roll up its sleeves alongside them to make it happen.