There is an “unanswerable” case to strengthen legal protections for devolved legislatures following Brexit, MSPs have heard. Professor Jim Gallagher, a former senior civil servant and academic, said ...

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 ...

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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 EDWIN POOTS was chosen as leader of Northern Ireland’s largest political party on May 14th, he described politics as “a rough-and-tumble game”. Defending his role in ousting his predecessor, ...

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, ...

The Scottish Parliament is on course for a consitutional crisis after MSPs refused to consent to the UK government’s EU Withdrawal Bill. Revealed: what hard Brexit would cost Scotland Jeremy Corbyn ...

Daniel Wincott receives funding from the Economic and Social Research Council and the Legal Education Foundation. The UK officially left the EU in January 2020 but it currently remains within the ...