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 ...

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 ...

Christopher A Whatley is affiliated with the Labour Party. It is the anniversary time of the Scottish referendum, in which the electorate voted Yes in overwhelming numbers. I don’t mean the 2014 poll, ...

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In 1998, the British Parliament fulfilled an election promise that then Labour Prime Minister Tony Blair had made in 1997 and passed the Scotland Act, paving the way for Scotland to elect its own ...

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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 ...

Former Scottish secretary Michael Moore will spearhead Liberal Democrat negotiations on more powers for Scotland alongside former Scottish party leader Tavish Scott. The two men declared their role in ...

Nationalists who regard devolution as an inadequate sop to their own holy grail naturally attribute Holyrood’s shortcomings to a lack of powers Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman ...

Trust in the Scottish Government has plunged to the lowest level since devolution and there has been a sharp decline in satisfaction with the NHS. A damning new survey has revealed a massive fall in ...

Unionists may want to consider another devolution referendum to secure decisive support for the Scotland Bill and end the ongoing manoeuvring towards independence, a leading political commentator has ...

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