The position then was that Jack Straw was trying to persuade the Scottish Government to accept a veto on prisoner transfer, as opposed to the exclusion clause that we wanted.Testimony to the fact that Jack Straw failed in his attempt to persuade us in that direction are the eight letters from me and the cabinet secretary—four before the meetings in question and four afterwards—which make it clear that the Scottish Government did not at any stage drop its opposition to that proposal or its insistence that there should be an exclusion clause in the prisoner transfer agreement.When Annabel Goldie takes a closer look at the record and understands the difference between 2007 and 2008 and the changes that occurred in the Labour Government’s policy in that period, she will see that the record clearly vindicates the Scottish Government’s position. Let us get...