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 ...

The leader of Manchester City Council Sir Richard Leese has blasted the Scottish devolution bill signed by the UK government today, arguing it gives Scotland less "real devolution" from Westminster ...

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 ...

After a long and passionate campaign from the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) and the numerous anti-independence groups, Scotland voted “no” to breaking its 300-year-old union with ...

Paul Cairney receives funding from the ESRC, and is a member of the Centre on Constitutional Change, but these are his views. When David Cameron met with Nicola Sturgeon to consider further devolution ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the wake of last year’s ‘no’ vote on Scottish Independence, and the recommendations of the Smith Commission tasked with taking forward devolution commitments made by Westminster, the UK Government ...

Christopher A Whatley is affiliated with the Labour Party. It is the anniversary time of the Scottish referendum, in which the electorate voted Yes in overwhelming numbers. I don’t mean the 2014 poll, ...

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 ...