![]() | '27 June. Mr Robertson formally announces Labour's plans for a referendum asking whether Scottish voters want a parliament and whether it should have tax-raising powers. Labour's chief whip, Donald Dewar, said 'There is no change of policy.' John McAllion, Labour's constitutional spokesman, was not consulted about the no-change and resigns. Lord Ewing, the Labour peer, resigns from his post as co-chairman of the Scottish Constitutional Convention, which took six years to come up with plans which had the support of a wide variety of Scottish orgnisations.' Peter MacMahon in the Scotsman, 7 th September 1996. | ![]() |