Sentence examples for claim devolution from inspiring English sources

"How can the Tories possibly claim devolution of power and investment tops their agenda, when they increasingly insulate themselves in a London bubble of policy advisers and decision makers?

Some of the anti-Corbyn Labour MPs claim devolution to be their big idea partly because they are not sure what they would do with power were they ever to get it.

Claiming devolution has become a "glass ceiling", he calls for Scottish independence within the year.

Dewar claimed devolution was the settled will of the Scottish people.

This article said the late Donald Dewar had claimed "devolution was the settled will of the Scottish people".

On last night's results, Labour's claim that devolution would "kill the nationalists stone dead" may have garnered the faint whiff of vindication.

Today Labour's former policy chief, Jon Cruddas, writing in the Observer attempts to chart a way forward for Labour while criticising the way it has allowed the Tory chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, to claim the devolution agenda as his own.

Polygon at Edinburgh; £11.99JOHN MAJOR, a former Conservative prime minister, once claimed that devolution threatened "a thousand years of British history".

Stephanie Hyde, a PwC executive board member, called on the government to support devolution, claiming it would further strengthen the economy in the north.

The SNP claims that fiscal devolution would allow Scotland's economy to grow faster, offsetting any shortfall.But for Scotland to catch up by 2019-20, itaxtax revenues per person would need to grow twice as fast as forecast for Britain as a whole, reckons the IFS.

Rupert Murdoch, chairman of News Corp, publisher of the Sunday Times and the Sun and a growing advocate of devolution, claimed on Twitter that Salmond's private polls showed 54%-46 54%-46rt for yes and predicted a desperate last 10 days as the establishment fought to save the union.