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Labour will never win while it refuses to speak for England
The party s misguided obsession with devolving power to regions is at odds with the sense of Englishness many of us feel
23 December 2020 • 10:40am
More than 40 years after the West Lothian Question was first asked, Labour has flunked it yet again. Keir Starmer’s speech on devolution this week was a perfect opportunity to surprise us all, break with the past and pledge to correct the British constitution’s anti-English bias. But his analysis contained only rehashed platitudes and same old, same old.
The wind-the-clock-back feel was capped by his announcement that Gordon Brown is to head up Labour’s “Constitutional Convention”. Yup, it’s that same Gordon Brown whose undistinguished premiership was characterised by endless waffle about the “nations and regions of Britain” – the nations, needless to say, being proud old Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, while the regions are the North West, North Eas