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How to solve the English question?
www.newstatesman.com
[New Statesman (blog)] - English voters are increasingly resentful of a settlement that allows Scottish and Welsh MPs to vote on English-only laws (the problem that became known, after the anti-devolution Tam Dalyell, as the West Lothian question). John Reid used to quip that
Guardian: Falklands sabre-rattling: Cameron should stick to bullying Miliband
[The Guardian (blog)] - In a curious echo of the Labour veteran Tam Dalyell's warnings in that Prince Andrew's role as a helicopter pilot would unite Latin America against an attack by European royalty, the Times reports that Prince William's imminent stint there – also
Guardian: What is the West Lothian question and why does it matter?
[The Guardian] - The question itself is famously attributed to the then Labour MP for West Lothian, Tam Dalyell, who raised it in when Jim Callaghan's Labour government proposed a devolved assembly in Edinburgh. An anti-devolutionist, Dalyell argued it would be
Amid the talk of Scottish independence, it's now time to answer the English ...
www.telegraph.co.uk
[Telegraph.co.uk] - It was in 1977, during the devolution debates in the Commons, that Tam Dalyell, the Labour MP for West Lothian, asked: “For how long will English constituencies and English honourable members tolerate honourable members from Scotland
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