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5 days ago · Inside government, she was one of the nation’s leading civil servants, right at the top of the pyramid of power: a key architect of both devolution and the creation of the Scottish Parliament.
4 days ago · 3 June 2024. Conservative proposals to make gender reassignment a reserved issue for the UK government are "an explicit, outright threat" to devolution, the first minister has said. John Swinney ...
2 days ago · Scottish devolution: Section 30 Orders (5 MB , PDF) A section 30 Order is a type of subordinate or secondary legislation which is made under the Scotland Act 1998. It can be used to increase or restrict – temporarily or permanently – the Scottish Parliament’s legislative authority.
3 days ago · John Ramsay Swinney (born 13 April 1964) is a Scottish politician who has served as First Minister of Scotland and Leader of the Scottish National Party since May 2024.He previously served as the leader of the SNP from 2000 to 2004 as Leader of the Opposition, and held various roles within the Scottish Cabinet from 2007 to 2023 under First Ministers Alex Salmond and Nicola Sturgeon.
3 days ago · Callaghan's time as prime minister was dominated by the troubles in running a government with a minority in the House of Commons: he was forced to make deals with minor parties to survive – including the Lib–Lab pact – and he had been forced to accept the 1979 Scottish devolution referendum as well as the 1979 Welsh devolution referendum ...
TheTelegraph. •. The Telegraph reports: The Green Party has been criticised over a policy document promoting “natural” childbirth and promising to reduce caesarean sections . A page on the Left-wing party’s website, which has since been taken down, called for birth to be “treated as a normal and non-medical event”.
3 days ago · We are familiar with the headline differences of devolution: tuition fees and free personal long-term care in Scotland, abolition of school league tables in Wales and Northern Ireland, and proposed congestion charges in London. But these are only the tip of the iceberg.
