But the former shadow education secretary will be highly critical of what he calls the Tories' "secretive, haphazard and controlling" approach to devolution.
Under a government that promised local control and devolution of power and decision making, the funding tap has been switched off with no powers of independence to replace it.
Dugdale said core tax, state funding and social policies would still be controlled in London – a policy framework often nicknamed devolution-plus.
Under devolution, Scotland controls just 7percentnt of our tax revenues.
But HMG is also adamant that, despite devolution, London controls foreign policy for the UK, not Edinburgh.
At the same time, FCO contacts tell us that HMG is adamant that, despite devolution, London controls foreign policy for the UK, not the Scottish.
At present under devolution, Scotland controls only 7% of our revenues". Alistair Darling, the former chancellor who now heads the anti-independence campaign Better Together, said: "Mark Carney has confirmed what we have been saying all along – a currency union is not compatible with sovereignty.
At present under devolution, Scotland controls only 7% of our revenues".
They'll control immigration, secure the NHS, push forward devolution in a spirit of "mutual respect" – all the hardy perennials.
The sides have swapped political turfs; the politically conservative industry and its supporters are standing for a strong central government, and the people they call a bunch of outsider, tree-hugging hippies want home rule -- local control and government devolution.
Such measures might include village governing boards or oversight committees, and indeed the literature on decentralization supports "stronger" forms of local control such as devolution of services to locally elected governments [ 56].
