But if Burnham wants to turbocharge his ambitions by prioritising fiscal devolution – specifically giving tax-raising powers ...

Millions of voters will head to the polls on 7 May, for local elections in England and national parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales. The UK has had devolved governments since the late 1990s, ...

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 ...

The regeneration was started in 1987 by the UK Government and helped by Welsh powerbrokers moving to Cardiff bay after devolution in 1999. In fact, politicians were quids in back in 1998 Wales when ...

The Cameron/Osborne approach to devolution had a number of distinctive features. Chief among these was its fixation with the directly elected metro-mayor as the answer to urban governance problem. In ...

Last week, the world’s most globe-spanning empire until the mid-20th century let its fate be decided by 3.6 million voters in Scotland. While Great Britain narrowly salvaged its nominal unity, the ...

IN RECENT YEARS it has sometimes seemed as if the only question worth asking about the state of the United Kingdom is which of its four nations would be the first to break away. Northern Ireland, ...

Patterns of cloud adoption across the UK public sector are anecdotally far from uniform, with central government bodies notably further ahead of their local government counterparts. But with Whitehall ...

Moving more powers from Westminster to the nations and regions of Britain has moved up the political agenda since the Scottish Referendum in September. The BBC's Home Editor Mark Easton took a road ...

Millions of voters will head to the polls on 7 May, for local elections in England and national parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales. The UK has had devolved governments since the late 1990s, ...