Summary
YOUR coverage of Lord Baker's bill on the West Lothian Question refers to many of the problems, incongruities and complexities which make, as many since the days of Gladstone and Rosebery in the late nineteenth century have discovered, the West Lothian Answer not nearly as simple as its proponents suggest.
This list can be multiplied easily. For example, how would Northern Irelandonly legislation be handled if devolution were restored there - by the few MPs from that territory who actually sit in the Commons? What about "Sewel Bills" containing "devolved" provisions which Holyrood has consented to being legislated at Westminster (the subject of a Scottish Affairs Committee inquiry), or Scotland-only Bills on reserved matters - are they to be handled solely by Scottish MPs or not? How are proposed amendments to bills to be "certified" as "English-only"? What about the whole areas of delegated legislation, private legislation or proposed private members' bills?See the full content of this document
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The Constitutional Dog That Finally Barks
If constitutional questions were matters of logic, then (a) the Question, a...
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