Keith Brown said Labour had broken its promises on devolution, raising a number of issues in a letter to Prime Minister Sir ...

You may have noticed that there's lots in the news lately about the political issue of devolution. But what is devolution, and why is everyone talking about it right now? Here's everything you need to ...

"There was no appetite in Wales for a further referendum on devolution and this provided a brake on such a radical change ...

KEITH Brown has demanded that Labour must end their “disrespect for devolution” in a letter to the Prime Minister ...

In the wake of last year’s ‘no’ vote on Scottish Independence, and the recommendations of the Smith Commission tasked with taking forward devolution commitments made by Westminster, the UK Government ...

Alex de Ruyter, director of the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University and David Hearne, researcher at the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University, on the prime ...

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Scotland is on the brink of inflicting £1.6 billion ($2.1 billion) in budget cuts on itself over the next five years, according to new data from the research unit F raser of Allander Institute (FAI).

IT HAS now been two weeks since Scotland got control over income tax, the so-called Scottish Rate of Income Tax (or SRIT). Under this deal, Scotland has put in its own 10p rate of tax, and Westminster ...

“AE FOND kiss and then we sever.” In 1999, when Scotland regained a parliament of its own, many believed that Robert Burns's love song was about to become a prophecy. Nationalists hoped, and unionists ...

In retrospect, the rhetoric of Holyrood’s driving spirits looks overblown, and, in some cases, ridiculously wide of the mark. Tony Blair spoke about a better way of governing, that would ‘bring power ...

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