Our introduction to: what each Bill is, the politics of it, who’s responsible, arguments for and against – and a controversy rating out of ten.
But he adds that he is “determined” to work with Sturgeon “in dealing with the immediate problems we face.”
New research shows how devolution has taken the ‘national’ out of the National Health Service. If the UK is to endure and thrive, this must change.
The challenges facing the Upper House are immense, but he has the character and the experience to steer us through them.
Constitutionally, socially, and symbolically, the monarchy is an institution that binds us together in ways no presidency could.
The Lord Chancellor post could be returned to the Lords – and once again become both a senior judge and a Cabinet member at once.
His extension of grace periods only makes sense as part of a strategy aimed at securing meaningful concessions to assuage unionist concerns.
The final part in ConHome’s series this week on the future of the United Kingdom.
As Alex Salmond’s evidence is censored again, now the reputation of Scotland’s prosecutors is dragged into the mire.
All of this has not gone down well with many backbench Conservative MPs, few of whom would be well-disposed towards a more conciliatory strategy.
Also: Gove should beware Brown’s constitutional anti-wisdom; Davies makes way for Davies; and MSPs compel evidence over Salmond row.
Advocates of every hoary old reform would immediately set to work arguing that the Union could be saved by their One Weird Trick.
Moving them would require primary legislation, but despite bullish official pronouncements there is little certainty that we’ll be voting in May.
Also: civil servant at heart of Salmond fiasco set for retirement windfall; Foster threatened by loyalist terrorist; and Bogdanor attacks federalist folly.
He proposed a limit was placed on the number of life peers that could be created. Much criticism of the House of Lords could have been spared.