Devolution Isn T News Today

yes. so, in summary, what is it? so, what happened was, last month, the scottish parliament, by a pretty big majority, passed this legislation and the legislation, this gender bill, seeks to remove administrative and medical barriers to changing the sex on your birth certificate. thats basically what it does. its passed the scottish parliament and it was waiting to be given the rubber stamp by the king, royal assent. but, crucially, while the issue of trans rights is devolved to the sc...

In his high—tech pufferjacket in the snow in davos in switzerland, here in the newscast studio, we have got bridget phillipson, labour mp, shadow education secretary. welcome. good to see you. davos — lets talk about davos for a minute and talking to grant shapps, there. it is a curious old gathering, isnt it? plenty of critics will say it kind of screams the global elite. keir starmer has been over there as well in the last few days. what is the value of it? we were asking grant shapps that...

I was talking to the first minister the other day, and i suggested to her that perhaps this was just an honest disagreement between the two sides. that both of you were approaching it in good faith and there was an honest disagreement. nonsense. she used similar words to suggest otherwise. absolute nonsense. but let me put to use something you hear from those in government here in westminster, which is almost like the counterpoint, which is that they say you guys must have seen this coming, wher...

The general election as a de facto referendum. in other words, if you or you and perhaps other pro—independence parties can win more than 50% of the vote in a general election, you would take that as a mandate to open negotiations with westminster over scotland leaving the united kingdom. so she does that first and then she says, were going to have a special party conference to decide whether thats a good idea. thats a bit odd, isnt it? i think the uk set up is pretty odd, to tell you the trut...

Are not sitting in whitehall, but government is shifting itself out of london as well. so i mean, i agree with the idea that, you know, the country, the closer you can govern to people, the better. but in the end, we are one nation. you have got to collect the money somewhere. decisions have to be made somehow and actually, i do think the west midlands has done superbly well under andy street and long may it last. well, something that is happening all across the nation, it is strikes, isnt it? i...

Quite an interesting day, i think. you know, knocking on doors and you were taking on douglas alexander. of course, you won. and you go to the house of commons and you are what they call, and i bet you dont like this, the baby of the house. but thats what they call it, the youngest mp. how old were you? 20? 20. right, and now youre the deputy leader of the party at westminster. its a journey, isnt it? its a big question but whats that been like? its all downhill from here, you know! ive peaked t...

Liberal with a more progressive culture, then the nation at large, thenit culture, then the nation at large, then it wont make a lot of difference there. but the umbrella protection of roe v wade is suddenly looking very vulnerable, and like it may collapse within a very short space of time. we may collapse within a very short space of time.— may collapse within a very short space of time. may collapse within a very short sace of time. ~ . ., ., space of time. we have heard from i think it is ...