I will—[Interruption.] Yes, I am going to speak. I know that SNP Members will be very pleased about that. I will keep my remarks short because a number of people want to speak, but I want to respond to the idea that has been traded pretty commonly in the past couple of speeches about the imposition of a devolution settlement vis-à-vis the frameworks. The Scottish Affairs Committee report quotes the Secretary of State for Scotland, who said:
“A UK framework is not a framework that the UK Government imposes; it is a framework that is agreed across the United Kingdom.”
I believe that that is a definitive expression of the Government’s policy in relation to the nature of frameworks and how they will be achieved.
Every time we have a debate in this House in which devolved powers and Brexit are mentioned, the Scottish nationalists go crazy—[Interruption.] Yes, berserk; that is a good word. A number of contributors, including the hon. Member for Airdrie and Shotts (Neil Gray), have spoken positively about how we can work together to create common ground and lift the issue from the trenches of political warfare in which, too often, the SNP wish to put it.
It is well established—I do not think there can be any doubt about this—that the Scottish nationalists are world class when it comes to grievance manufacturing. It is time to get past all that, because these issues are of such importance to the people of our country, whether they are consumers or producers and from whatever walk of life they come. Instead of sloganising and weaponising, and using phrases such as “power grab”, which has become commonplace today—[Interruption.] Bingo, as I think someone said earlier. We need, instead, an adult approach.
As I said earlier in an intervention, I genuinely compliment the hon. Member for Perth and North Perthshire (Pete Wishart). Aside from the usual entertainment that he throws into his speeches, I felt that there was real substance and positivity in what he said. I remind the Committee that these powers that mean so much to the Scottish nationalists are the same powers that the SNP wants to give back to Brussels in the unlikely event that there is such a thing as an independent Scotland.