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Why have the UK's governments diverged on easing lockdown?

11 May 2020 | Jack Sheldon Michael Kenny

Jack Sheldon and Michael Kenny consider why Boris Johnson’s televised address on a phased approach to easing lockdown has sparked public disagreements with the devolved governments, and the implications these differences might have for future relations between the governments of the UK.

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Devolution

Scotland, the last in line to relax lockdown

22 May 2020 | Richard Parry

As the Scottish Government finally publishes a strategy for emerging from lockdown, it has been able to hold on to the maximum time and benefit from full restrictions. Richard Parry discusses how the tide has turned throughout the UK in favour of relaxations as governments try to control future events while being forced to justify their earlier decisions

Devolution

Johnson gives an opening to covid policy dealignment

12 May 2020 | Richard Parry

As the devolved administrations show increasing confidence in charting their own course, Richard Parry reviews a crucial few days in the UK's response to the virus.

Devolution

Why have the UK's governments diverged on easing lockdown?

11 May 2020 | Jack Sheldon, Michael Kenny

Devolution

Contrasting responses to a common virus

4 May 2020 | Richard Parry

Richard Parry discusses the varied responses to the pandemic between the devolved nations in the UK and beyond, and what this tells us about the relationship between the political system and expert advice.

Independence and the Union

Why Stay Together? Unionism and State Nationalism in the UK and Spain

28 April 2020 | Coree Brown Swan, Daniel Cetrà

In a recent article for Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Coree Brown Swan (University of Edinburgh) and Daniel Cetrà (University of Aberdeen) compare unionism and nationalism in the UK and Spain. In this blog they've given us a teaser of what you can expect.

Independence and the Union

Borders: Lessons from Ireland

27 April 2020 | Katy Hayward

Katy Hayward, Queen's University Belfast, discusses Brexit and the Irish border, and the lessons Scotland can learn from this. From a Scottish Centre on European Relations report 'An Independent Scotland in the EU: Issues for Accession'.