New “English votes for English laws” rules have been implemented in the House of Commons for the first time. Conservative MPs cheered as English and Welsh members prepared to give their consent to parts of…
Tory grandee Lord Heseltine says handing funding control to local authorities will allow regions to decide their own economic fates By Rebecca Burn-Callander, Enterprise Editor The devolution of power to cities outside London is “a…
The constitutional struggle between Holyrood and Westminster is set to intensify after SNP sources revealed ministers are considering campaigning for new powers in a second Scotland Bill even before the current one has reached the…
Article by ARIANNA GIOVANNINI and ANDREW MYCOCK 19 November 2015 In Open Democracy ‘English Votes for English Laws’ is supposed to answer the ‘West Lothian Question’ – yet the government’s English devolution policy is recreating the same…
Having attended last Wednesday’s IEA sponsored panel discussion in rainy Westminster (Whitehall, town hall and the four nations – who should run what?), it is safe to say that the decentralisation brigade are still banging…
Today, Wednesday 4 November the House of Lords Constitution Committee sits and is taking evidence from the organisations. You will notice that the Campaign for an English Parliament once again finds its excluded from giving…
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The following article states ‘David Mundell insisted the Scottish Parliament would be one of the most powerful devolved assemblies anywhere in the world when the new legislation is passed’. Yet, even with these powers the…
Dear Member and Supporter I appreciate this is late notice but on the 4th November 2015, the following event Panel discussion: Whitehall, town hall and the four nations – who should run what? |…
What we see in this article is that the Scottish First Minister, Scottish Government and the Scottish Trade Union Congress are working together to try and protect the Scottish Steel industry and Scottish Jobs, what…