Devolution
Worth the wait? Reforming Intergovernmental Relations
Author / Creator: Nicola McEwen
Media type: Article
Date published:
Intergovernmental relations (IGR) have long been the weak link in the UK’s system of devolution. Overall, the reforms carry the potential for significant improvements to the system.
Brexit and Beyond: the union
Author / Creator: UK in a Changing Europe
Media type: Report
Date published: February 2021
What happens to powers that were formerly exercised at the EU level, but which fall within devolved competence, has been a recurrent source of disagreement between the UK Government and the devolved administrations.
The dilemma of devolution – more powers but potentially worse off
Author / Creator: Richard Parry
Media type: Article
Date published:
Increments [of devolved powers]...expose yet more anomalies and disadvantages to Scotland that only the full powers of independence would resolve.
Devolution
Author / Creator: Malcolm Harvey
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
Devolution has caused a de facto decentralisation of the UK, although such arrangements as the Sewel Convention can be over turned by the Westminster government.
Twin Tracks: Cultural and Political Nationalism after 1967
Author / Creator: Scott Hames
Media type: Book
Date published: 2020
The idea of Devolution arriving on a wave of artistic Renaissance and rising national ‘confidence’ is too simplistic, and obscures important disparities between the ‘twin tracks’ of cultural and political nationalism.
Scottish devolution at 20: some hits, some misses and that eternal maybe
Author / Creator: Christopher A Whatley
Media type: News Media
Date published:
Many hoped devolution would kill nationalism stone dead. Labour colleagues failed to grasp Scots’ powerful sense of nationhood. Although a Labour man argued that devolution could lead to independence. Alex Salmond asserted that independence was “rendered inevitable when the Scottish parliament was established”.
A Sign on the Road
Author / Creator: John S Warren
Media type: News Media
Date published:
A critique of "Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom", and especially Alister Jack's view of Scotland in the Union.
Strength in Union: The Case for the United Kingdom
Author / Creator: Alister Jack
Media type: Collection of essays by a Conservative Think Tank
Date published: September 2021
Is Scotland a Nation or a Region. MP David Cameron called Scotland a Nation in September 2014 in the run up to the Referendum. In 2021, Alister Jack, Secretary of State for Scotland, refers to Scotland as a region.
An Unequal Kingdom: The Barriers to Federalism in the UK
Author / Creator: Craig Dalzell
Media type: Policy Paper
Date published: April 2018
Federalism will not work without constitutions for all the parts of the UK and most importantly England. Without defined powers England can undo any federalism.