Almost three decades ago Labour set up the Scottish parliament, promising voters that ‘the Union will be strengthened and the ...

Since the 1990s, devolved governments across the UK have worked alongside the Westminster Parliament.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. The leader of Manchester City Council Sir Richard Leese has blasted the ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Scottish parliament with Calton Hill in the background. Bernt Rostad, CC BY-SA It is the anniversary time of the Scottish referendum, in which the electorate voted Yes in overwhelming numbers. I don’t ...

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 ...

IT HAS now been two weeks since Scotland got control over income tax, the so-called Scottish Rate of Income Tax (or SRIT). Under this deal, Scotland has put in its own 10p rate of tax, and Westminster ...