Since 2014, a new political institution has been added to the compound landscape of subnational governance in England: directly elected Combined Authority (CA) ...
The original 1997 devolution settlement was based on an expansive philosophy that meant the powers of the new institutions could grow over time. Under success...
The question of sovereignty has not been resolved in Scotland. On the one hand, there is the Westminster doctrine, that the Crown-in-Parliament is sovereign an...
Anya Pearson interviews Michael Kenny, Inaugural Director of the Bennett Institute for Public Policy at the University of Cambridge, about winning the 2021 Ber...
It has long been assumed that UK devolution was structured around a clear separation of powers that are reserved to the UK parliament and those that are de...
The introduction of devolution in Scotland and Wales, and its reintroduction in Northern Ireland, has wrought a welcome transformation in the governance of the...
Of all the
candidates vying for the party leadership, Lisa Nandy appears to have put the
most thought into why Labour was so badly beaten in the general electi...
Abortion law is being politicised in the broader debate about devolution in Scotland, with serious implications for women’s rights.
In recent years, several de...
Devolution in the UK has long being defined as an unfinished business, not least due to uncertainties concerning England’s role and place within the process. Wh...
