Millions of voters will head to the polls on 7 May, for local elections in England and national parliamentary elections in Scotland and Wales. The UK has had devolved governments since the late 1990s, ...

Devolution was the focus of Andy Burnham’s first big speech since becoming Labour’s newest MP almost a fortnight ago. After Sir Keir Starmer announced he would resign as Labour leader last Monday, the ...

BBC Verify has looked at what impact further devolution could be expected to have on the UK.

Scotland has just entered a new era: a world of public spending cuts and job losses after a decade of devolution largesse. In this Scotland is just like everywhere else in the UK; some English and ...

Devolution is killing the party that claims to have delivered it. Having passed the Scotland Act in 1998, which created the Scottish Parliament and granted it a range of legislative powers, Labour has ...

A memo recorded Sir Keir Starmer telling ministers to be prepared to make decisions even if it was against the wishes of a UK nation's devolved government The prime minister has defended his approach ...

Twenty-five years ago, when new institutions of national government were created in Scotland and Wales, they reflected the widely held view that the Welsh and Scots should have more control over their ...

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 ...

Scottish Labour’s result in the 2026 election was its worst in devolution history, but it also sits forlornly in a pattern of serial decline for a party that I dedicated much of my adult life to and ...

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.