The UK has had devolved governments since the late 1990s, which work alongside the Westminster Parliament. Different types of devolution are in place across Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, as ...

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 ...

English devolution has emerged as a prominent feature of the 2015 general election campaign for a number of reasons. One is the ongoing process of devolution that has been taking place across the UK, ...

But other key aspects are either vague or left out altogether. For example, there is a priority commitment to set up a constitutional convention to “drive political reform of Westminster” and the ...

The Cameron/Osborne approach to devolution had a number of distinctive features. Chief among these was its fixation with the directly elected metro-mayor as the answer to urban governance problem. In ...

IN RECENT YEARS it has sometimes seemed as if the only question worth asking about the state of the United Kingdom is which of its four nations would be the first to break away. Northern Ireland, ...

Moving more powers from Westminster to the nations and regions of Britain has moved up the political agenda since the Scottish Referendum in September. The BBC's Home Editor Mark Easton took a road ...

The regeneration was started in 1987 by the UK Government and helped by Welsh powerbrokers moving to Cardiff bay after devolution in 1999. In fact, politicians were quids in back in 1998 Wales when ...

The United Kingdom is made up of four nations: Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and England, but they are not equal. England ...