You're involved in a pro-UK Union think tank called these islands. Do you feel that the devolution of so much political power to Scotland and Northern Ireland, in retrospect, was a mistake? No, I'm all in favor of devolution. Britain, before the Second World War, was a state in which power was devolved to Scotland, to Wales, to Northern Ireland,. but also to the great cities of England as well, to Birmingham. And I think that the challenge of defeating Hitler, the British state, became so centralised that we have long Second World War after effects.

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