SNP leadership candidate warns over devolution

In the final days of the independence referendum campaign, the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrats pledged significant further devolution in the event of a No vote.
With Scotland voting to stay in the UK â a result that prompted Salmond to announce his intention to resign as both SNP leader and Scottish first minister â Sturgeon demanded those promises must be kept.
She said she would be a âwilling partner for progressâ in talks about transferring responsibility for more areas to the Scottish Parliament.
âIf I am elected to lead, I pledge today that the SNP and the Scottish Government will be full, active, genuine and constructive participants in that process of change, wherever it happens â in Holyrood, in meeting rooms and, most importantly of all, in discussions across Scotland.
She said the deal on more powers must be one âthat maximises devolution in substance not just in rhetoricâ, adding: âThat is what I believe the majority of people of this country now want.â
Sturgeon, who is stepping down as SNP deputy leader to run for the partyâs top job, said the pro-UK parties had made a âclear and unmistakableâ pledge that the package for Scotland would be âsomething near to federalismâ.
She said: âWell, let me say this to Westminster on behalf of Scotland â it had better be.
âIf the UK parties move forward in that spirit, they will have, in me, a willing partner for progress.