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 ...

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 ...

A Scottish Government minister has compared the approach of the UK Government to devolution to a nine-year-long war between England and Scotland. Addressing the Scottish Affairs Committee in the House ...

Alex de Ruyter, director of the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University and David Hearne, researcher at the Centre for Brexit Studies at Birmingham City University, on the prime ...

Had the Scots voted for independence in September’s referendum and Scotland had become a European Union member state, the cross-border legislation would have kicked in and defined benefit schemes with ...

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 ...

Newcastle International Airport is the most northerly major commercial airport in England and was therefore watching last week's Scotland Independence referendum more anxiously than any other airport.

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CAERNARFON/YORK, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Scotland's chance to vote for independence has lit hopes in other regions of Britain that a reworking of political ties might boost their chances of self-rule too.