But the senior member of Ms Alexander's (Labour leader in Scotland) Holyrood team told The Herald the majority of Labour members in Scotland backed greater powers for the parliament and accused party chiefs in London of looking at the matter "from the wrong end of the telescope".
The aide said: "David Cairns (British Scotland Office minister) and some of his colleagues are out of step with party thinking.
"I would imagine that the bulk of the Scottish party believe in the dynamic of the situation, which is that if you ask the ordinary man or woman in the street do you think the Scottish Parliament should have more powers?' the answer overwhelmingly will be yes'.
LibDem MSP Robert Brown, yesterday accused Mr Cairns of living in a "Whitehall bubble". "I think he will find most people in the Labour Party and across Scotland do not agree with his view," he said.
A source close First Minister Alex Salmond added: "For David Cairns to dismiss the people of Scotland as the McChattering classes' is foolish and insulting, and speaks volumes for why Labour lost the election.
"It is reminiscent of the dismissive way Michael Forsyth and the Tories rejected devolution - which is no doubt one of the reasons why Labour is suffering a similar fate in Scotland: out of touch and divided, and with a leadership crisis."
Wales must have parity with Scotland because it is increasingly likely that future Governments in Whitehall will not have been elected by a majority of Welsh voters.