Power to the People? The route to English devolution

In this report, we consider five recent proposals for English devolution authored respectively by the Bennett Institute and Institute for Government, the Brown Commission on the UK’s Future, The Fabian Society, New Local and the Constitution Group and John Denham with the Constitution Group of the Society of Labour Lawyers – the latter in the form of a briefing on Labour’s shadow Take Back Control Bill. The report analyses the devolutionary potential in these proposals following fourteen criteria and organised into themes: power, money, governance and political culture. It then proceeds to consider the likelihood of implementation over the next two parliamentary terms.