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Who wants to break up the UK?
The slow-burn-but-inevitable result of Blair’s botched devolution reforms. Britain’s enemies will be overjoyed…….
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Why Is There No MP for the Falklands?
This week saw a south-Atlantic gale of outrage after Argentina’s chainsaw-wielding President Javier Milei repeated his country’s entirely bogus claim to the Falkland Islands, with President Donald Trump twisting the knife by saying the USA’s view of the issue was…
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Why has ‘less Westminster’ become ‘more politicians’?
It’s great the new Government is trying to breath fresh life into devolving power from Westminster, but their new ‘Rewiring The State’ proposal doubles down on some big mistakes in Blair’s last attempt: 1, It adds more expensive extra layers…
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Blair’s devolution experiment is broken – and someone needs to say so
The ‘Burnham effect’ that propelled Labour to victory in Makerfield is only the latest example of regional and devolved democratic leaders who are miles more popular than their opposite numbers in Westminster. Political talents as diverse as Boris Johnson and Alex Salmond…
