Abstract
The United Kingdom is a unitary, multi-national state. Consequently, all political authority is ultimately centralised. Constituencies in all the component parts of the United Kingdom — England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland — send representatives to the national Parliament at Westminster. However, following the election of a Labour Government in 1997, a Scottish Parliament with devolved powers, including primary law-making and tax-varying powers, was introduced and is to become fully operational in 2000. Similarly, a Welsh Assembly was introduced, also to be fully operational in 2000, while an Assembly for Northern Ireland came into being as a consequence of the so-called ‘peace process’.
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Forman, F.N., Baldwin, N.D.J. (1999). Devolved and local government. In: Mastering British Politics. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-15045-8_16
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