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A Tory website has published an article calling for the abolition of the Senedd because the party can’t win elections in Wales.
Whitehall is to bypass the devolved administrations and replace European structural funds with a centrally-controlled fund.
The Welsh Government plans to take the UK government to court over a new law that sets the rules of trade between different UK nations after Brexit.
In what follows, a group of leading social scientists explore these themes, explaining what has happened in the past, the situation the UK finds itself in now, and the issues that might confront us going forward. The collection is intended as a guide to the big questions confronting the country in the years to come.
The UK Government has been accused of a "deliberate and premeditated attack on devolution" after leaked documents appear to show it hid key parts of Brexit planning from the Welsh and Scottish governments.
The UK government hopes to "unpick" Scottish devolution "under the cover of Brexit", according to the country’s Constitution Secretary.
When thinking about what I might about say in this lecture it occurred to me that it would be appropriate to look at parliaments and sovereignty, which are hugely important concepts when it comes to understanding Euroscepticism and Britain’s place in the European Union (EU).
Vital decisions about Wales and Scotland are being unilaterally taken in Westminster, fuelling the arguments for devolution.
The case for Brexit largely rested on the assumption that the United Kingdom is a unitary nation-state in which the people give effect to their will through a unitary and all-powerful Parliament. In this post, Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen) uncovers the shortcomings of such an approach and asks whether Brexit marks the end of the first of two unions?
“If Westminster maintains its control, recent history shows what Scotland can expect: an economic recovery hindered by a hard Brexit that is already taking a significant toll and the continued, systematic undermining of devolution, which is weakening our parliament’s powers to maintain food and environmental standards and protect the NHS from post-Brexit trade deals."
Ministers from across the devolved regions have jointly criticised the UK Government for their approach to allocating previous EU funding.
An act which saw the Welsh Government begin legal action against the UK Government “damaged relations” between them, a report has found.
Philip Rycroft says PM’s ‘muscular brand of unionism’ has deepened divisions between four nations.
However far less attention has been given to the considerable impact Brexit has had on devolution and the relationships within the UK between its constituent parts.
Twenty-five committees and five study groups to cover almost every conceivable area of interest between the EU and UK have still not been established.
If he refuses a referendum that Scots have voted for, there would be no lawful way to leave the UK. The implications are huge.
Brexit has removed the EU as an external support system that prevented devolution from escalating and undermining the union. In this edited extract from his new book, State and Nation in the United Kingdom: The Fractured Union, Michael Keating (University of Aberdeen) warns that the Conservative Party’s vision of the UK as a ‘unitary state’ might fracture it even more.
Wales voted for Brexit by the same margin as the UK overall, 52 to 48 per cent, in sharp contrast to Northern Ireland and Scotland. / There is evidence that disproportionate support for Leave among the 21 per cent of Welsh voters who were born in England tipped the vote for Leave in Wales.
THE UK Government has been accused of “clumsy control-freakery” after a letter sent to the devolved nations insisted that London be informed of all contact with the EU.
The leader of Swansea Council has raised concerns about the funding which will replace the hundreds of millions of pounds Wales used to receive from the European Union each year.
Whitehall is increasingly all over the place when it comes to governing Scotland.
The Scottish government is using devolved powers to secure the rights of EU nationals beyond the end of June, as new figures suggest thousands of Scottish residents are likely to miss a crucial Brexit deadline to continue legally living and working in the UK.
Five years ago today, a vote took place which sent shockwaves around the world. I’m talking, of course, about the Brexit referendum.
The Scottish Government paper claims Brexit is damaging business, migration and devolution itself, with External Affairs Secretary Angus Robertson (below) insisting “Scotland has to consider its future path” when the coronavirus pandemic is over.