devolution

As devolution rose and fell, he was a permanent fixture on the UTV evening news programme.

The Welsh government will receive an extra £1.7bn next April, in what the Labour chancellor called the "largest real-terms funding increase since devolution".

Reeves, formally setting out her spending plans for the first time, said it would be the largest real-terms funding settlement since devolution.

"He took devolution, he supported devolution, but I think he took a very pragmatic approach and I think that is what has been missing from in the period he left office in 2014."

As I predicted, he is demonstrating what appears to be an ongoing devolution of his ability to think, form coherent sentences, and find and pronounce words.