Sentence examples for limited devolution from inspiring English sources

Wales was also given limited devolution the same year, with its powers further enhanced in the Government of Wales Act (2006).

We need to see the limited devolution already in the constitution put into action.

George Osborne's answer is limited devolution to certain good-goody "city regions" that can be trusted to receive slightly more money than they have at their disposal just now.

Scottish Labour won the battle but lost the war in 2014, with negative messages and scaremongering during the long independence referendum campaign and the most limited devolution offer of all the parties thereafter.

The next year, 1979, rattled by the SNP, keen to shut down the bitterness over Scotland's oil, and also allegedly perturbed by a few now-forgotten minor acts of terrorism, the James Callaghan Labour government brought to fruition a process begun 10 years earlier with the Kilbrandon Commission on the Constitution, and staged a referendum in Scotland offering it limited devolution.

To encourage them, Mr Jospin, a Socialist prime minister "cohabiting" with a conservative president, Jacques Chirac, is arguing that one virtue of his plan for limited devolution is that it is "essentially regulatory" and so would not involve a battle to amend the constitution, although the Constitutional Council may yet think otherwise.In this section A new route?

While the Blair government showed its reforming credentials in devolution, limited reforms to the Lords and the introduction of a London mayor, most of England was unaffected.

That's why the House of Commons political and constitutional reform committee, in a report echoing Bogdanor's call for a UK-wide convention, recommends that its terms of reference be limited to territorial devolution, and not wider questions of democracy.

Devolution has limited the powers of English MPs in Scotland without affecting the powers of Scottish MPs in England; Tory views on this so-called "West Lothian" question will be published within a couple of months.

The paper explains that there is a "gulf" between the two leaders, with the PM arguing that devolution should be limited to proposals agreed in all-party talks in November, but Ms Sturgeon saying the "overwhelming mandate" the SNP won in Scotland means matters must go further.

Mr Ibarretxe, a nationalist, is pushing the limits of devolution and seeking votes in the regional election due this autumn.