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 ...

Politicians in Holyrood and Cardiff Bay make decisions on some but not all public policies, taxes and areas of public ...

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 ...

A new report has warned of a “clear decline in trust” in the Scottish Government since the dawn of devolution, with less than half of respondents saying it acts in the country’s best interests. The ...

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 ...

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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.

In part, this has been motivated by growing concern that Scotland’s cities risk being left behind, with city-regions such as Manchester and Birmingham gaining greater autonomy to shape their economic ...