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Mr MacNeil said the failure to announce how much, if any, of the £1.6 billion pot of cash will go to the devolved regions showed they were "making it up as you go along". He went on to mock the Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Secretary James Brokenshire's statement. Mr Brokenshire's words came after his colleague Health Secretary Matt Hancock had to defend a payment of £33 million to Eurotunnel over post-Brexit cross-Channel contracts.

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Mr MacNeil said: "With Seaborne containers, with the Channel Tunnel fiasco, with no idea for Scotland, no idea for Wales and maybe Northern Ireland has had its cash, we don't know.

"This is UK at peak banana republic, it's make it up as you go along at the despatch box."

Calling for money to help the towns in his constituency off the west coast of Scotland, Mr MacNeil asked: "Will we see our fair share or is this peak zenith banana republic from that despatch box?"

In response, Mr Brokenshire said: "I'm sorry that the Honourable Gentleman seemingly does not have that sense of ambition that we have for Scotland going through Brexit and beyond."

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