Mary Dejevsky: If the union is still here after Covid, devolution needs another look

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Mary Dejevsky: If the union is still here after Covid, devolution needs another look
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If social disparities are at the top of the list of national ills that the pandemic has exposed, the defects of the UK’s constitutional arrangements for devolution cannot be far behind, says Mary Dejevsky

Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, was clapped for defying Westminstern Wednesday evening I was taking what was once called our permitted daily exercise in the direction of Parliament Square and noticed an unfamiliar crowd of demonstrators gathering. It turned out that the flags they were waving were Nigeria’s and their cause was police brutality in Lagos.

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