Could Brexit bring new powers to Holyrood?

Holyrood will receive a raft of new powers if the UK votes to leave the EU, a leading academic has said.

Drew Scott said Brexit would see powers over fishing and agriculture move to Scotland from Brussels.

The professor of European Union studies at Edinburgh University told Scotland 2016 that leaving the EU would lead the way to a debate on how those powers should be used, how the policies will be paid for and the future relationship between Holyrood and Westminster.

Prime Minister David Cameron has travelled to Brussels to build support for his EU reforms at a summit with the leaders of the other 27 member states.

An agreement would pave the way for a referendum on the UK's membership of the EU as early as June.

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