Weak central government that fails to deliver is making the nationalist case in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland stronger
Rishi Sunak's administration’s mediocrity following the toxic Boris Johnson and Liz Truss premierships has meant the wider governance problems facing the UK state have not been tackled. Photograph: Jonathan Brady/PA Wire
The Cambridge academic Michael Kenny’s recent book on the UK’s fractured union talks of “the ever more disjoined and dysfunctional way in which England itself has been governed” after devolution elsewherespoke of “excellent teams doing excellent work within an overall dysfunctional system” in his evaluation of Covid policy after resigning as chief adviser to Boris Johnson.on his time as a Tory MP reveals an amoral and disintegrating system of governing.
An alternative ‘muscular’ unitary Conservative unionism which emphasises a new Britishness and is impatient with devolved institutions could return to power emboldened – if the party survives That, however, is unlikely under Labour, which buys deeply into the centralist mindset. Its tendency to deprioritise constitutional issues until a second term may rebound as it underestimates and miscalculates the effects of delaying constitutional change in the smaller nations.
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