{"id":492735,"date":"2025-10-12T04:51:34","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:51:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492735\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T04:51:34","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:51:34","slug":"roz-foyer-scotlands-future-must-be-decided-by-holyrood-not-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/492735\/","title":{"rendered":"Roz Foyer: Scotland&#8217;s future must be decided by Holyrood, not Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) general secretary Roz Foyer is set to make the comments at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25059069.news-interviews-updates-snp\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SNP<\/a> conference in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/local-news\/aberdeen-news\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Aberdeen<\/a> on Saturday.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The STUC&#8217;s current policy is that Scotland has the right to self-determination, maintaining that the right to hold an independence referendum should lie with the Scottish Parliament.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>STUC general secretary Roz Foyer(Image: free)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Foyer will address SNP delegates at the party&#8217;s conference on Saturday afternoon.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  She is expected to say: \u201cWe know Scotland needs the powers to do better. We need stronger powers over borrowing, over migration, over employment, over further taxation and more.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25528315.snp-conference-2025-expect-national\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>What to expect from The National at the 2025 SNP conference<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThere are differing views across our movement \u2013 and yes, even across yours \u2013 on how such powers are best delivered. But I have no hesitation in saying this: Whatever the constitutional future of Scotland may hold, it must be the people of Scotland who decide.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cAnd if the question of self-determination arises again \u2013 if there is a pro-independence majority in the Scottish Parliament \u2013 then it is for our Parliament, Scotland\u2019s Parliament, to hold that referendum if it so chooses.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cBecause that is democracy. And if that is the will of the people of Scotland, then no <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/westminster\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Westminster<\/a> Government should deny that wish.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Foyer is also set to call on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/topics\/scottish-government\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Scottish Government<\/a> to take action on tax, spending and public services, saying &#8220;people can&#8217;t afford to wait any longer&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  An STUC spokesperson said: \u201cIt\u2019s abundantly clear that the Scottish Government can do more, in the here and now, within the powers of devolution to raise revenue and provide support for people in need.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cHowever, the STUC has been clear: it\u2019s for the people of Scotland to decide their constitutional future. It\u2019s fundamentally dangerous to block all roads to constitutional change should that be the desire of the people.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cIf that is the will of the electorate, then it is an obligation on all to respect that mandate and to respect the function of the Scottish Parliament to deliver on that desire.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC) general secretary Roz Foyer is set to make the comments at the SNP&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":492736,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-492735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115359402114129309","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=492735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=492735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=492735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=492735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}