An ‘English rate of income tax’: six questions in search of an answer
In a speech on Friday launching the Conservative Party’s ‘English manifesto’, David Cameron apparently proposed an ‘English rate of income tax’, on which voting in Parliament would be limited to...
View ArticleBingham Centre review of devolution in the UK
For the last few months, I’ve been working with the Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law on a major inquiry into devolution and how it should develop, from the point of the UK as a whole. The starting...
View ArticleDevolution, territorial politics and the general election
This post also appears on the Constitution Unit’s blog, here. Constitution-unit.com has a number of other election-related posts which are well worth reading. It is hard to think of a general election...
View ArticleHow Labour messed up 1998-model devolution
It’s intriguing to see various senior figures from the New Labour era call for a return to something much more like new Labour to revive the Labour Party. Those figures seem to overlook how responsible...
View ArticleThe Bingham Centre devolution review: the UK at a constitutional crossroads
This post also appears as a guest post on the Centre on Constitutional Change blog here, the LSE’s British Politics and Policy blog here, and the Institute of Welsh Affairs blog ClickonWales here. The...
View ArticleLegislative consent for the Trade Union bill?
In a speech at the SNP conference in Aberdeen, Grahame Smith of the STUC has apparently argued that the impact of the Trade Union bill currently before the UK Parliament is such that it requires...
View ArticleSpending Review 2015: a test the Treasury flunked
The welter of responses to yesterday’s UK Spending Review and Autumn Statement have overlooked an important set of things the review did not do when it comes to managing the devolved UK. Despite...
View ArticleThe Enterprise bill: public sector pay-outs and devolution
Having made its way through the Lords, the Enterprise bill will get its Commons second reading next Tuesday. In many ways, this bill exemplifies bad post-devolution legislation, as it’s a portmanteau...
View ArticleDevolved elections and the timing of the EU referendum
All three devolved first ministers have now written to the Prime Minister seeking to ensure that the referendum on the UK’s EU membership is not held in June. The current thinking suggests that 23 June...
View ArticleBrexit, Article 50 and devolved legislative consent
This post is about whether Brexit requires legislative consent from the devolved legislatures, particularly the Scottish Parliament, and what that consent relates to – whether the whole process of...
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