British & Scottish Politics

Opinion

Devolution, climate change and the climate emergency

Centre on Constitutional Change

Dr Antje Brown of St Andrew’s University reflects on the Scottish Government’s climate change agenda at a time of climate emergency.

Opinion

The Implications of Leaving the EU Customs Union

Centre on Constitutional Change

Keeping the Irish border open after Brexit is one of the key challenges that the UK and EU negotiation teams currently face.

News

Press Release: May’s ‘Precious Union’ has Little Support in Brexit Britain

Centre on Constitutional Change

Theresa May’s ‘precious Union’ has little in the way of meaningful support from her own supporters or self-professed Unionists in other parties.

Opinion

Taking Stock: Scotland and Brexit

Tobias Lock

With little more than six months to go before the UK leaves the EU on 29 March 2019, the position of Scotland vis-à-vis the EU is not much clearer than it was in the immediate aftermath of the EU

Opinion

Is the UK ready for a Norway-style deal?

Michael Keating

Because of leaks coming out of the UK Government, we have known for some time what the broad lines of their negotiating offer to the EU would be.

Opinion

Can Theresa May keep her Brexit crap game going indefinitely?

In the classic American musical, Guys and Dolls, the cast sang the praises of Nathan Detroit, the man who ran The Oldest Established Floating Crap Game in the City of New York.

Opinion

Crisis, Headache or Sideshow?

Nicola McEwen

Different political actors have responded to the decision by the Scottish Parliament to withhold its consent for the UK Government’s showpiece EU (Withdrawal) Bill in very different ways.

Opinion

The devolved system waits for the referee

Richard Parry

Richard Parry discusses the interacting policies on devolution and Brexit in the current impasse between UK and devolved governments.

Opinion

A Continuing Source of Disagreement

Nicola McEwen

The devolved legislatures’ ‘continuity’ legislation prepares their statute books for Brexit in the event of an ongoing impasse with the UK Government over the so-called ‘power grab’ in the EU

Opinion

Is the UK straining at the seams?

Michael Kenny

With little enough fanfare, Cabinet Office Minister David Liddington MP set out how Britain will operate post-Brexit.

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