She said it was "deplorable scaremongering when, after 14 years of devolution, we've clearly taken a different approach [in Scotland] – it's not going to work".
After 15 years of devolution the nation with the rich world's greatest concentration of land ownership remains as inequitable as ever.
"There's a recognition that after all these years of devolution there's a disappointment that Welsh education isn't where we would want it to be.
After years of devolution to Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish administrations, not all government departments have much say over what happens in those countries.
The Scottish government's powers are far greater than in the early years of devolution, and likely to get greater still.
Of course, we haven't reached that point yet, but 10 years of devolution has not only pushed at the boundaries of a united kingdom, but has made devolution an irreversible process.
Michael Kenny, an authority on Englishness, cites it as a factor in the rise of the UK Independence Party (UKIP), a right-wing outfit attracting disaffected voters from the Conservatives and Labour.Despite years of devolution to Britain's periphery, the parliament in Westminster looks remarkably similar to how it did in 1997.
Surely Scotland, having lost two first ministers in the first three years of devolution, is not about to lose another?Newspapers claim that anything between £11,000 and £50,000 seem to be missing from the accounts of Mr McConnell's local Labour Party.
It may also embolden an English nationalism that threatens the union just as much as the Scottish kind.Polls suggesting that two-thirds of the English support an English-only parliament may be flawed (the questions are often leading), but support is definitely up from the 17% registered in the early years of devolution.
So what do they consider to be the highs and lows of 15 years of devolution?
