John Sewel, Baron Sewel
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John Buttifant Sewel, Baron Sewel OBE (born 15 January 1946) is a Labour Party member of the House of Lords.
He was made a Life Peer as Baron Sewel, of Gilcomstoun in the District of the City of Aberdeen in 1996. His name is given to the Sewel motion, parliamentary device passed by the Scottish Parliament, in which it agrees that the United Kingdom parliament may pass legislation on a devolved issue extending to Scotland, over which the Scottish Parliament has regular legislative authority.
He is an academic at the University of Aberdeen.
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