Michael Ancram, the Tories' constitutional spokesman, claimed in a speech in Aberdeen on August 27th that Scottish firms and workers will be taxed to the hilt by an Edinburgh parliament.
David Heath MP, Lib Dem constitutional spokesman · The twin proposals of streamlining the planning process to meet needs for housing and handing over more power to councils to set affordable home quotas do not bode well if the experience in Lewes is anything to go by.
This was originally drafted by Lord Tyler, the Liberal Democrat constitutional reform spokesman, who wants the committee to examine broader political funding.
Pete Wishart, the Scottish National party's constitutional affairs spokesman at Westminster, said independence for Scotland was the best cure for the West Lothian question.
Andrew Duff, a European Parliament member from Britain who is the constitutional affairs spokesman for the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, a grouping of centrist parties, said the body had become "tremendously powerful".
Lord Tyler, the Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman in the Lords, said: "The penny hasn't dropped in Downing Street about the effect this will have on the backbenches, but the penny has certainly dropped in local constituency offices.
Four years later, he lost his constituency seat to the SNP but was returned through the list system and became the Scottish Conservatives' chief whip, business manager and constitutional affairs spokesman.
A year ago who would have expected to hear phrases such as 'authority of the House of Commons', 'an elected House of Lords' and 'recipe for gridlock' being beamed out on Radio 2? The post of constitutional affairs spokesman is one of those imaginative Tory euphemisms forced upon the party after May 1.
Paul Tyler Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman, House of Lords It took rare genius by the government to arrange the Norwich North byelection on a date when the sizeable student population had returned home, preventing any possibility of a Labour, or even a Green party, victory.
Liberal Democrat constitutional affairs spokesman Lord Tyler said change had to happen "from the bottom up".
"There is no science behind this, just rushed reforms by a Tory-government which does not care about the impact this will have on rural areas where MPs are already stretched," said the party's constitutional affairs spokesman Pete Wishart.
