Insufficient and unequal devolution got us into this mess – only full and fair Devo Max for all the Home Nations will settle the matter.
If, once the overall budget has been set by the UK Parliament, MSPs take decisions on the NHS in Scotland, shouldn’t English MPs alone do the same for England?
The Green Belt is strangling our cities to protect high-intensity farming. There are better ways to protect the environment that allow us to build the homes we need.
Labour doesn’t own the North – it never did – and Conservatives can win here.
“…When the lights come on at four/At the end of another year…”
Jim Murphy’s performance. The SNP’s new members. Salmond’s demands. Turnout. And the new devolution proposals.
Whether English votes for English laws gets through the Commons or not, we need a constitutional convention to give wider reform legitimacy.
The Smith Commission’s proposals suggest that Scotland’s referendum hasn’t settled the independence debate for a generation – as unionists hoped.
Nadhim Zahawi was on patriotic form in today’s session of PMQs.
Andrew Rosindell MP’s proposals would be unworkable and destabilising. Asymmetry is the price England pays for the Union.
European Unionists know that know that only an eventual deepening of our commitment, including, above all, joining the euro, will secure our membership.
The Conservatives are stronger in the new towns, weaker in some some suburbs and more concentrated in the South-East – the cause and effect of changes in the party.
Perhaps. But it’s hard to see where a significant Tory breakthrough is going to come from in time for next May.
Instead of a careless English nationalism that demands a new Assembly, let’s think carefully about allocating money around the United Kingdom.
On English bills, MPs with English constituencies should have a vote in a new Grand Committee. But the whole Commons should vote at Third Reading.