Is the House of Lords indefensible?
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Is It Possible to Decentralise Power?
All governments talk about how much they want to decentralise power. But isn't there another point as well, which is the bigger, more practical political point? And this is kind of tinkering around with the constitutional apparatus is very time-consuming. On the other hand, an incoming labour government will have so much... If you compare it to the last time there's a labour government in 1997, there was plenty of opportunity to move running around and generate money. Labour know that that isn't going to be the case in 2024 or 2025. They know they're not going to be able to do a purely redistributive programme in a way the previous Labour governments have done. So, this
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