NLJ this week: Gordon Brown’s blueprint for constitutional reform

Does it promise major constitutional change, or simply more of the same ‘in disguise’ as change? Proposals include abolishing the House of Lords and creating an English Grand Committee of Parliament, but the report also emphasises ‘economic regeneration and a better spread of economic opportunity and growth across the UK’.

Weller writes: ‘The strategy of the report seems to be to try and build enthusiasm for a renaissance of Britain as a whole—a new cool Britannia, as it were—while addressing the national question for Scotland in a more incidental way; the premise being that a successful UK will be enough to dissuade anyone from leaving it.’

See Professor Weller's full article here.