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Union at the crossroads: can the British state handle the challenges of devolution?

April 12, 2021 Bennett Institute for Public Policy
Bennett Institute podcasts
Union at the crossroads: can the British state handle the challenges of devolution?
Show Notes

There is a growing political focus upon the future of the UK Union, in the context of consistent support at 50% or higher for independence in Scotland, the destabilising impact that Brexit has had on Northern Ireland and the emergence of a more active independence movement in Wales.

A report published by the Bennett Institute for Public Policy, University of Cambridge, and The Constitution Society,  states that the future of the Union needs to encompass a clearer focus upon the lack of a developed culture of, and machinery for, bringing the different governments of the UK together.

Two of it's authors, Michael Kenny, Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Bennett Institute, and Philip Rycroft, former Permanent Secretary at the Department for Exiting the European Union (2017-2019),  share their insight into some of the decisions, events and mentalities within the state machinery that have led to the current situation and what the state must do to save the Union.

Read the report: Union at the crossroads: can the British state handle the challenges of devolution?