Scotland wasting time on constitutional disputes, says thinktank

Gordon Brown’s Our Scottish Future thinktank says reforms and investment hampered by focus on referendums

Scotland’s devolved government has been beset by poor quality decision-making for the last decade because of an obsession with constitutional disputes, a thinktank has found.

The report from Gordon Brown’s Our Scottish Future thinktank, which has close ties to Labour, said much-needed reforms to public services and economic investment have been hampered by short-term decision-making and an unrelenting focus on referendums and elections.