Sentence examples for separate parliament from inspiring English sources

They might even have their own separate parliament, to make the system more accountable.

Since New Labour's 1997 referendum on establishing a separate parliament, devolution has been introduced in stages.

What the English are coming round to is the idea of a separate parliament for England as a whole.

A poll in November by ICM for the Sunday Telegraph showed that 68% of English people want a separate parliament instead.

We don't need a separate parliament, we simply need genuine local autonomy over the things that matter locally rather than nationally, and fair funding to go with it.

The simple truth is that Cornwall is not full of people who want a separate parliament – nor, incidentally, did they want one in 1497.

Before those acts, the two were separate states with separate parliaments under the same monarch.

I mentioned British hopes for separate parliaments in Scotland and Northern Ireland, co-existing within a European economy and community.

Scotland and England still had their separate parliaments, and within half a century England was gripped by civil war, James' son Charles was executed (part of Oliver Cromwell's "cruel necessity"), and when monarchy returned the instability continued.

Or is this the chance – perhaps the last chance – to hold the United Kingdom together with separate parliaments for all four nations and a federal assembly to replace the Lords?

Although the 1920 Government of Ireland Act envisaged separate parliaments exercising jurisdiction over southern and northern Ireland, the architects of the partition anticipated that the new constitutional entity to be known as Northern Ireland would prove too small to be viable and would be rapidly absorbed into a united Ireland.