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IPPR - The View from Westminster

The Institute for Public Policy Research have today released a slightly reworked version of The English Question: The View from Westminster.

The paper is referenced in today's Telegraph.

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terryheath's picture
Submitted by terryheath on 1 February 2010 - 5:07pm #

The most annoying thing about this is the lack of information regarding the responents' nationality.

It is mentioned with regard to the poll overall, but not with regard to each question. Scots and Welsh MPs comprise 15% of Westminter's MPs, but 21% of the poll's respondents.

Maybe the most revealing findings of the this report is the willingness of non-English MPS to interfere in matters that don't concern them (WLQ in a nutshell!)

 
Gareth Young's picture
Submitted by Gareth Young on 2 February 2010 - 10:22am #

It's the views of the Tory MPs that appear to be making the headlines, and there aren't many Scottish Tory MPs.

 

On the Record

Is it not the case that the only effective way to solve that problem is to give MPs in English constituencies the decisive say in the House on issues that affect only England? The Prime Minister has had 30 years to come up with answers to the West Lothian question, and I have to tell him that Question Time for regional Ministers just does not cut it. Does he not see that the failure to answer that question is actually putting the Union at risk?

— David Cameron

Hansard, 3 July 2007

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