Michael Fry: Nothing's federal about the UK, and it's too late to start now
Comment In 2008, while prime minister, Gordon Brown broke the promise made in an election manifesto three years earlier IT’S got to the point where Brexit, though tedious in itself, makes us think critically about all sorts of other aspects of a disunited kingdom. In the last week two veteran politicians, Labour’s Gordon Brown and Tory Sir Malcolm Rifkind, have been lauding the referendum as the means to solve our big constitutional problems, Scotland to the fore among them. Strangely, this is not a matter on which Brown the Unionist can boast any consistency. In 2008, while prime min...