Pete Wishart: “What is needed is a proper debate about whether it should exist at all. Anything less is simply protecting a broken…”

And to think that this work has concluded is utterly madness.

I have watched, like everybody else, as the world has burned this summer.

Embarking upon an inquiry into matters that properly belong to the jurisdiction of the Scottish Parliament, and doing so without its consent, risks reopening old divisions and damaging relationships that have been carefully rebuilt.

This is the wrong thing to do, it is the wrong response.