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 ...

Three nationalist first ministers in Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales may not prove the triumph for nationalism they seem ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reid surveying the newly completed Scottish Parliament debating chamber in 2004: a convert from Labour, he was never insular in ...

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 ...

AROUND 65,000 Scottish children would be living in relative poverty if not for devolution, according to new research ...

A memo recorded Sir Keir Starmer telling ministers to be prepared to make decisions even if it was against the wishes of a UK nation's devolved government The prime minister has defended his approach ...

Sir Tony Blair was the prime minister who legislated for a Scottish Parliament. While the former prime minister did not claim the goal of devolution to be to end the Scottish independence movement, ...

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 ...