devolution
Example Sentences
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Divisions over devolution within Labour are not new.
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Questioned whether Mahmood's response was a kick in the teeth, Morgan said she had made her position on the devolution of policing "clear" in her speech.
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I've tried to find out - and what's emerged is a strategy where success relies on this being one of the most tactical, and closest, Scottish elections of the devolution era.
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Tony Blair believed his Labour government had defeated the threat of a breakup of the UK by delivering devolution to Wales and Scotland, newly released documents reveal.
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This was done at Westminster later in 2000 while devolution was suspended.
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