Tory calls for federal UK to see off moves to break the Union
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THE United Kingdom is in danger of disintegration and should embrace a federal structure of government and create individual parliaments in each nation, Conservative AM David Melding declares in a major book published today.
He envisages a new constitutional settlement which could cut the number of MPs at Westminster to 300 and officially recognise the sovereignty over domestic issues of the parliaments of Wales, England, Scotland and Northern Ireland.See the full content of this document
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Tory calls for federal UK to see off moves to break the Union
Entitled "Will Britain Survive Beyond 2020?", the book presents the United Kingdom as a state in urgent need of reform.
He writes: "Unionists must take seriously the possibility that the British state might fragment within the next 20 years. Only when that risk is acknowledged can it be managed and mitigated."Whatever happens, b...See the full content of this document
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