by Ira StrausChair, Center for War-Peace Studies 21st October 2019 There was one fully justified Red Line buried amidst Theresa May’s long list of them: that no agreement is permissible that would draw a dividing line within the United Kingdom (see The meaning of Theresa May’s one legitimate Red Line). [...]
Click here to download the paper in pdf format Introduction The Brexit episode has seen the political system of the United Kingdom subject itself to immense pressures. Politics always involves tension. However, the cross-cutting divisions exposed and widened by the prospect of leaving the EU are of a more fundamental [...]
STEPHEN HASELER MEMORIAL LECTURE: Will Brexit destroy the United Kingdom? 4th October 2018 Joint event by the Federal Trust and Global Policy Institute The lecture was delivered by Brendan Donnelly, Director, The Federal Trust CLICK HERE TO READ THE STEPHEN HASELER MEMORIAL LECTURE 2018 DOWNLOAD THE LECTURE (pdf file) In [...]
Devolution, federalism and the United Kingdom Constitution: Lessons and implications of the Brexit process by Dr Andrew Blick June 2018 About the author Dr Andrew Blick is a Senior Lecturer in Politics and Contemporary History, King’s College London; and Senior Research Fellow at the Federal Trust Download the paper [...]
Devolution in England: International Perspectives, Politics and Policy Ideas 19-21 June 2017 University of Kent, Canterbury, UK The Centre for Federal Studies at the University of Kent convened this conference on ‘Devolution in England: international perspectives, politics and policy ideas after Brexit’ on 20-21 June 2017 in Canterbury, [...]
Presentation by Dr Hywel Ceri Jones at the Conference held at the University of Swansea organised by the Morgan Academy and Schools of Management and Law 25th November 2016 Let me say at the outset that I was one of the 14 million Remainers, though I was also in favour [...]
by Dr Tim Oliver, Dahrendorf Fellow on Europe-North America Relations, LSE Ideas This article was first published by Democratic Audit UK. London is the UK’s undiscovered country and it is time we recognised it as the UK’s fifth constituent part by granting it the devolved political powers it deserves. [...]
Devolution has ‘knock-on’ implications for many aspects of the UK constitution. The United Kingdom may still be classified as a unitary state, but the relationship of the devolved institutions of Scotland, Wales and (when operating) Northern Ireland with the Whitehall/Westminster nexus will gradually acquire many quasi-federal features. Federalism has a [...]
