George Foulkes Articles

Urgent action must be taken now to resolve the English democratic deficit and the divide between the south-east and rest of England, argues George Foulkes Last November I wrote an article for Progress arguing the case for a United Kingdom constitutional convention to...

For some years now support for a United Kingdom constitutional convention to deal with the English democratic deficit, reform of the House of Lords and to move toward a more federal UK has been gathering momentum. Jeremy Purvis and I set up an all-party group at...

The BBC has been leading its news that the election in Holyrood has been a disaster for Scottish Labour. Even I, as a serial Labour loyalist, cannot pretend that the result has been good for us. However, there are more conclusions to be drawn and lessons to be learned...

When the first edition of this book was published in 2010 the author had three books under his belt, a long treatise on the secretaries of state for Scotland, a posthumous biography of George Younger, and ‘We in Scotland’ on Margaret Thatcher’s uneasy relationship...