Labour will never win again if it can’t acknowledge, let alone answer, the English Question The old New Labour narrative that England is not a nation, only a set of would-be regions, is damaging the party. The Labour Party’s political woes can be explained as much by the English as the Scottish Question. To govern at Westminster is also to govern England. If this was not well understood before the pandemic, it is now. Since the “West Lothian question” was resolved in 2015 with the introduction of English votes for English laws in the Commons, Labour would need to win a majority of English seats to legislate for England. Otherwise, a Labour government would have to begin life by using SNP votes to change how English laws are made.