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Scotland and Europe after the election

The outcome of the May 7 general election has delivered a majority government but not answered two pressing constitutional questions: the future of Scotland in the United Kingdom; and the future of the...

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The UK’s negotiations with the EU

Now that the Conservatives have a majority government, we will have a referendum on membership of the European Union. This is scheduled to happen before the end of 2017, although there are signs that...

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Overview to Scottish Parliament European and External Relations Committee

This is an overview of Professor Michael Keating’s briefing to the Scottish Parliament European and External Relations Committee which took place on the 4 June 2015 discussing the United Kingdom’s...

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Whitehall should not have monopoly on renegotiating UK membership of EU

Some time in the next two years, Scots will face another referendum on whether the United Kingdom should remain in the European Union. This issue has become deeply entangled with the question of...

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Cameron’s EU balancing act

David Cameron’s four demands outlined in the letter to the European Council will not satisfy his own Eurosceptics and may be too much for his EU partners to accept. It is not at all clear how some...

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Scotland and Europe: The renegotiation agenda and the Scotland Bill

David Cameron’s proposed areas for renegotiation have implications for the Scottish Government, a situation that will increase once the Scotland Bill is passed. The distinct Scottish interest in the...

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How much has Cameron gained from the renegotiation?

The outcome of the marathon European council can be interpreted in a narrow or a broad way. In the narrow interpretation, David Cameron has gained little, especially compared with his ambitions at the...

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Constitutional change is constant in these British isles

  As the EU referendum campaign gathers momentum, polls show the UK almost evenly divided on the merits of staying in and pulling out. In Scotland, however, the ‘stay’ option is, at this stage, clearly...

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Brexit reflections – out means out

There is great uncertainty about what lies ahead for the UK’s relationship with the European Union but one thing is clear. Out means out. We will not have membership of the Union, with the right to...

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Where next for a divided kingdom?

The outcome of the referendum has left the UK deeply divided, by age, class, education and territory. These divisions are not new but reflect emerging social cleavages as the old divides of the...

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How could Scotland remain in the EU?

In 2014 Scotland voted by 55 per cent to stay in the United Kingdom. Now it has voted by a larger margin (62 per cent) to stay in the European Union. It cannot, it seems, remain in both and must...

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Does Brexit need the consent of the devolved territories?

The UK Government has promised a UK-wide approach to Brexit but it is not clear what this means. For the devolved nations – Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – there is range of possibilities from...

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What role for the devolveds in Brexit?

On 24 October the plenary Joint Ministerial Committee [JMC (P)] of UK, Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland leaders met for the first time in two years. The occasion for resurrecting what had become...

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Constitutional over-reach

It is well known that the United Kingdom does not have a codified, written constitution, to which reference can be made when matters of constitutional law are in question. Instead, there is a variety...

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We are still a long way from federalism

The devolution settlements of 1999 were a way of squaring a circle. On the one hand, they gave the non-English parts of the United Kingdom elected assemblies in recognition of their distinct national...

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Debating Scotland

The independence referendum of 2014 divided Scotland into two camps, a division that has now become the principal dividing line in the nation’s politics. Yet it has not created a social or ethnic...

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More powers to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, or power grab?

Brexit has numerous effects on the UK’s internal devolution settlement. One of the most difficult concerns powers coming back from Brussels and whether they will revert to Westminster or to the...

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Between a rock and a hard place

The UK Government and media seem to have been taken aback by the decision of the EU to introduce the question Gibraltar into the Brexit negotiations, insisting that any deal concerning Gibraltar must...

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Multidimensional competition: the new game in British politics

At one time, Scottish politics, like those elsewhere in Great Britain, divided rather clearly on the left-right axis, with elections disputed between Labour and the Conservatives. In the mid-twentieth...

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EU referendum: one year on – Brexit and devolution

There are two very different views of the UK’s largely unwritten constitution. One, the “Westminster” view, is based on the principle of parliamentary sovereignty and supremacy. This holds that the UK...

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