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  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Until now Sunak’s ‘moderate’ pose was his advantage

    Plus, reviews of green schemes show devolution plays second fiddle to political self-interest at national level

    Local residents and business owners protest about the impact on businesses of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in Fulham, London
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    UK politics
    Decentralising UK taxes could be a balm amid needy electorate

    Politicians are nervous to admit taxes will go up — fiscal devolution might ease the process

    Birmingham City Council
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    Scotland
    Scottish government unveils post-independence citizenship rules

    Humza Yousaf seeks to reverse population decline and address shortage of workers

    Humza Yousaf speaks at an event in Edinburgh
  • Monday, 3 July, 2023
    News in-depthClimate change
    Welsh town left on road to nowhere after Cardiff scraps new bypasses

    Environmentalists hail ‘world-leading’ curbs on new highway projects as angry locals worry about economic impact and increased pollution

  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland struggles with fiscal crisis as politicians boycott executive

    Projected £1bn deficit has put region’s funding in the spotlight and threatens irreparable damage to public services

    Owen Crozier, manager of School Employer Connections
  • Monday, 22 May, 2023
    Northern Ireland
    DUP vows to extend Stormont boycott until N Ireland budget is boosted

    Hopes of quick return to power-sharing hit as Democratic Unionists demand extra funding and guarantees over place in UK

    DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson speaking to the media outside Stormont on Monday, surrounded by party MPs and MLAs
  • Sunday, 21 May, 2023
    News in-depthNorthern Ireland
    Sinn Féin cements place as Northern Ireland’s largest party

    Nationalists beat projections to take 144 of the 462 council seats in local elections

    Sinn Féin candidates celebrate winning six out of seven seats for the party in the Black Mountain district electoral area in Belfast
  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Northern Ireland
    Northern Ireland’s local elections overshadowed by Brexit stand-off

    DUP seeks to retain council dominance on Thursday in test of support for Stormont boycott

    DUP leader Sir Jeffrey Donaldson
  • Monday, 17 April, 2023
    Northern Ireland
    Key players in N Ireland peace deal urge DUP to end Stormont boycott

    Region’s political parties need to do ‘the right thing’, says Tony Blair, 25 years on from historic GFA

    George Mitchell, former US senator, who chaired the peace talks
  • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
    Scottish politics
    Scottish government to challenge London’s veto of gender legislation

    Move intensifies constitutional clash between Holyrood and Westminster

    Trans rights demonstrators at a rally in Glasgow in January
  • Sunday, 9 April, 2023
    Northern Ireland
    Sunak hails 1998 Northern Ireland peace deal as ‘incredible moment’

    UK prime minister set to meet US president in Belfast to celebrate 25th anniversary of Good Friday Agreement

  • Friday, 7 April, 2023
    News in-depthNorthern Ireland
    Northern Ireland celebrates its imperfect peace accord

    The Good Friday Agreement ended the region’s conflict but has struggled to underpin political stability

  • Friday, 31 March, 2023
    Inside Politics
    Devolution dies in darkness

    Centralising devolved scrutiny in England doesn’t make much sense, but the mayoral system does need some sunlight

    Manchester’s city skyline
  • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
    Britain after Brexit
    Northern Ireland’s budget squeeze Premium content

    Plus, how childcare in the region is eating into household incomes

    US president Joe Biden
  • Saturday, 18 February, 2023
    Chris Deerin
    Sturgeon’s exit prompts fresh turmoil for Scotland

    Unionists scent their opportunity as charismatic first minister leaves the independence cause without a champion

    Nicola Sturgeon stands on a podium with a ‘stronger for Scotland’ banner behind her
  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    Camilla Cavendish
    Devolution has stoked brutality and division in our politics

    As she resigned, Nicola Sturgeon complained of the toxic atmosphere that she and her party have contributed to in Scotland

    Jonathan McHugh illustration of a stone pillar with the Scottish flag hanging over it. One red tartan stiletto is on top of the pillar, the other one falling off
  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    Nicola Sturgeon
    Timeline: Nicola Sturgeon’s rise through Scottish politics

    From teenage SNP activist to first minister at Holyrood

  • Tuesday, 14 February, 2023
    Northern Ireland
    N Ireland’s Stormont assembly fails to elect speaker for sixth time

    DUP blocks move and sinks bid to use session to pass organ donor legislation

    Sinn Fein Vice President Michelle O’Neill (left)meets six-year-old Daithi Mac Gabhann with his parents Mairtin Mac Gabhann (right) and mother Seph Ni Mheallain (second from left) on the steps of Parliament Buildings at Stormont
  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    UK politics
    Scotland calls on London to remove block on transgender bill

    Edinburgh minister warns that legal fight will delay implementation, causing further harm to trans people

    Demonstrators campaign for transgender rights outside the UK government office in Edinburgh on Thursday
  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    UK politics
    Former LGBT+ adviser warns Sunak against blocking Scottish gender bill

    Iain Anderson says move being considered by UK prime minister would hit country’s global reputation

    Members of the Scottish Family Party protest alongside supporters of the Gender Recognition Reform Bill (Scotland) outside the Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh
  • Thursday, 5 January, 2023
    FT live news
    Live news updates from January 5: McCarthy set to lose tenth Speaker vote, Amazon to cut 18,000 jobs
  • Wednesday, 28 December, 2022
    UK politics
    Gove announces £1.4bn devolution deal for north-east England

    Region will acquire elected mayor with new powers if agreement wins local approval

    Michael Gove
  • Thursday, 8 December, 2022
    Philip Stephens
    Neuralgia clashes with exceptionalism in Northern Ireland

    Unionist intransigence over the Irish Sea border rests on insecurity

    Black and white photo from 1922 showing armed troops guarding barricades in Belfast to prevent further rioting
  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    UK politics
    Labour moots ‘biggest’ transfer of power from Westminster

    Proposals by former PM Gordon Brown include scrapping Lords and moving 50,000 civil servants out of London

    Former prime minister Gordon Brown, left, greets Labour leader Keir Starmer
  • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
    Instant InsightDavid Allen Green
    Ruling against Scottish independence vote throws ball back in political arena

    The Supreme Court judgment was legally disappointing for the Holyrood government but gives it more ammunition

    Scottish independence supporters wave Scottish national flags outside the Supreme Court
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