When the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, recently told a group of MPs that devolution in Scotland has been a “disaster” he raised an interesting question. Has handing greater powers to the Scottish ...

PM hails Scotland's 55%-45% vote to remain inside UK as a defiant Alex Salmond pays tribute to 'triumph of democracy' ...

Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken believes Andy Burnham's expected move to Downing Street could finally secure a £400 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The leader of Manchester City Council Sir Richard Leese has blasted the ...

Twenty years ago today, Scotland voted 3:1 for devolution in a referendum delivered by Tony Blair’s Labour government. Yet while today there are no calls for a return to direct rule, and while the ...

Yes, voters were angry at UK Labour – but the Scottish party failed to get the best out of Holyrood’s voting system.

What's in the bill? It gives the Scottish government in Holyrood a range of significant new tax and spending powers, but stops some way short of full fiscal autonomy. From April 2017 the Scottish ...

Scotland has just entered a new era: a world of public spending cuts and job losses after a decade of devolution largesse. In this Scotland is just like everywhere else in the UK; some English and ...

This is going to make the West Lothian Question really stand out as a problem that must be solved. In the aftermath of the Scottish devolution referendum (the one where the majority of Scots said they ...

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 ...

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