EXCLUSIVE: Ross Greer said there is a 'conflict' in peers also becoming MSPs.
The Scottish Greens are pushing for members of the House of Lords to be banned from serving as MSPs. Ross Greer is tabling a plan to disqualify peers from doubling jobbing at Holyrood.
Greer, a List MSP for West of Scotland, wants the curb extended to the Scottish Parliament. His proposal, lodged as an amendment to an elections bill going through Holyrood, would block peers from taking office as MSPs. Lord Watson quit Holyrood and was sentenced to 16 months in jail in 2005 for starting a fire in an Edinburgh hotel.
“The only way you should get to decide on the laws of this country is via a fair election. Every MSP is democratically elected, but there is a clear conflict between this and sitting in the unelected Lords. If a peer wants to serve in Holyrood, they should resign their membership of the Lords first.
Scottish Labour Labour Party Justice Kilwinning
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