Northern Ireland needs to be governed more than it needs a Government. If the local parties won’t cooperate, there must be consequences.
When Scots start to become impatient with higher taxes or see the fallout from anti-business rhetoric and policy, they will know who to blame.
Low taxes for low income earners, the Northern Powerhouse, devolution and… Halfonism.
Tamworth has much to gain as part of a thriving economic block beyond Staffordshire.
It is important that adequate time is given for scrutiny and opposition to avoid either bad law or the impression of a self-interested stitch-up .
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Businesses in the North have embraced the Chancellor’s project, but now it must go much further.
Scotland’s drive to lower the voting age poses hard questions about the relationship between the rights and responsibilities of the citizen.
Support for the SNP and independence stayed the same before and after the film’s release.
Also: Welsh Assembly in revolt over plans to increase members’ pay; and Carmichael at risk of recall for leaking Sturgeon’s Tory sympathies.
“The Local Government Association is urging ministers to extend devolution to non-urban areas as well as cities” to deliver jobs, homes and growth.
The Prime Minister would do a service to his party and to the Union by doing so.
Devolution should not only take place to the cities.
“We cannot have our leaders selected, or deselected, by the grudges and grievances of one prominent man. The leader of the Scottish Labour Party doesn’t serve by the grace of Len McCluskey.”
It can no longer afford to be caught between the noise of Scottish nationalism to the North and a resurgent Leeds and Manchester to the South.