Some in the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party resent what they see as a centralisation of decision-making, while the party's trade-union and communist allies feel increasingly sidelined as well.
Yet Mr Major's own 1997 election manifesto called for a flexible European Union, and said it would use treaty changes to devolve powers to member states, and block further centralisation of decision-making.
"Post Hutton there has been a greater centralisation, or a desire for greater centralisation of editorial decision making... at the expense of the sort of independence previously exercised at the time when George Entwistle was running Newsnight or Peter Barron or various distinguished figures," said Paxman.
Differences in public spending on transport and research between north and south are large, 26 and the centralisation of power and decision making in London may result in more attention being paid to the south.
Conservative education spokeswoman Angela Burns said: "While any proposal that puts the welfare of families first is welcome, I remain cautious over the centralisation of yet more decision-making.
Although many countries have now implemented some degree of centralisation of treatment and decision-making in the area of targeted cancer therapies, the results presented here may not be fully generalisable to more decentralised health systems.
This is centralisation of power, where spending decisions could have been left to the individual park authorities.
Examples of meso level decisions noted by participants include centralisation of services (from remote and rural areas to regional centres), budget and staff cuts, local implementation of national funded programs (eg subacute care), organisational priorities and performance indicators (length of stay, waiting list management, revenue targets).
