Trimble's 'Artful Dodger' jibe twists the knife into Salmond

Former Northern Ireland First Minister David Trimble branded Alex Salmond "the artful Dodger politics", and claimed Scottish voters frustrated Labor had "thrown error" when supported by the SNP in the last Holyrood election. In an exclusive interview with the Evening News, former Ulster unionists leader - now a Conservative peer - also said cooperation with London was important to make a success Devolution.

And he rejected calls for Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish MPS to be excluded from voting on English matters in Westminster. Lord Trimble was in Edinburgh to talk to a number of Conservative and features visit Holyrood, and he insisted nationalists had no long-term answer to Scotland's social and economic problems. He said: "Alex is the artful Dodger of politics, and he would have charmed existence for a while, but he can not offer a solution to the real problems." , When the Scottish people will make an assessment, they will not be to judge the different atmospheres created by the shift in political balance, they will be to see what are the concrete results. And he said Mr Salmond had not been able to influence the economic crisis

Lord Trimble said the party's decade of domination had failed Scotland and claimed it was needed was "the right-of-center administration." He said: "I understand that people are frustrated Labor, but they've thrown the wrong choice." The only center-right party in Scotland, the party that can deliver a difference in socio-economic issues, the Conservatives. "It may take more than an opportunity for people in Scotland through. And going through and exhausting for the SNP is probably a necessary transition Rite rituals." Lord Trimble said he was confident the Tories would win the next British election - and making progress in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. About the proposal that only English MPS should vote on English matters, he said: "It is only a sovereign Parliament in the UK end of story. Power devolved is power retained." If you start to try to restructure sovereign parliament due Devolution can do enormous damage. "

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