Enjoying the view from his high horse, Patrick Harvie, co-leader of the Greens, used his time at first minister’s questions yesterday to berate the “institutionally racist” Home Office and to ask Nicola Sturgeon if she was yet aware of a “Freedom to Crawl” campaign launched yesterday to draw attention to the “abysmal standard of accommodation” provided to asylum seekers who are pregnant or have young children. Resisting an easy gag at Harvie’s expense — “You can get up now Patrick, it’s undignified” — the first minister agreed that the Home Office’s shortcomings offered yet more reason for transferring certain immigration responsibilities from Westminster to Holyrood. SponsoredHere, she noted, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child had been incorporated into domestic law.

Source: The Times May 27, 2021 15:56 UTC