Starmer warned cabinet against ‘overly deferential’ relations with devolved governments

Leaked memo dates from shortly after Labour Senedd members raised alarm devolution is being rolled back ...

‘Seismic change’: how election wins for nationalists in Celtic nations could reshape UK

With polls suggesting Plaid Cymru, the SNP and Sinn Féin could be in power after May vote, constitutional challenges may lie ahead ...

‘I remember actually choking back the tears’: Former civil service chief on GFA, the ‘heady days’ of early devolution and what the future holds for Northern Ireland

David Sterling, former head of the NI civil service, tells David McCann about being left in charge of government, how we were just days from being sent water bills, and whether he really believes devo ...
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Why are the UK nations still so bad at learning from each other’s policy successes and failures?

Twenty-five years after parliaments and governments opened in Belfast, Cardiff and Edinburgh, a new PolicyWISE report has ...

Devolution isn’t proving a motorway to independence. It’s a dual-carriageway to nowhere

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