devolution Articles

Devolution has been in vogue since the Scottish independence referendum; local leaders seized their opportunity to demand more powers from Westminster and the response they got from both Tories and Labour was generally favourable. But the debate in England has been...

I had mixed feelings when I saw the two latest devolution deals for the West Midlands and Liverpool city region. I was delighted that Labour leaders were getting greater powers for their communities. Yet I felt frustration that it was a Tory chancellor signing the...

Devolution to counties is the lesser-known cousin of city deals, but counties are clamouring for it, even if their agenda is not quite in synch with Westminster. If government is serious (and it should be) about devolution from the ground up then, says new report from...

Opposition is pretty grim – and five years of it does not make it any easier. Our senior parliamentary representatives have to spend their days responding to other people’s ideas and doing their best to mitigate the worst of Tory proposals. Sometimes a timely and...