Scotland will fight Brexit power grab, Westminster is warned

John Swinney (left) and Mike Russell table their demands.Mike Russell, the Scottish Brexit minister, has warned that his government will refuse to sign any exit deal unless it gets guarantees in legislation to protect Holyrood’s powers.Russell and Damian Green, the UK’s first secretary of state and de facto deputy prime minister, agreed on Thursday that substantial progress had been made in agreeing how to share out EU powers between the London and Edinburgh parliaments.