Tag: Jim Gallagher
The Brexit shambles: Charting a path through the rubble
In a paper published this week by Nuffield College, Oxford Jim Gallagher argues that in responding to June’s Brexit vote the UK and Scottish governments must proceed rationally, on the basis of the evidence, and pursue the national interest. They should not feel bound by the Leave campaign’s promises and should seek to stay in, […]
Scottish devolution will now have a bigger fiscal dimension
A deal has finally been struck on the fiscal framework for the Scotland Bill. Holyrood will now be supported by a mixture of shared UK resources and its own tax revenue, levied in Scotland, but supplemented by UK resources as well. Here, Jim Gallagher reviews the compromise and the negotiations leading up to it. Similar PostsThe […]
Negotiations about the fiscal framework for the Scotland Bill are becoming high political drama
The Scottish government has set a St Valentine’s Day deadline for the end of negotiations over the fiscal framework for the Scotland Bill but the two sides are struggling to read a deal. In this article, Jim Gallagher discusses the sticking points, and writes that the fiscal framework is of constitutional significance because it sets […]
In order to sustain itself, the UK must become a new and different Union
Jim Gallagher reflects on what the Scotland Bill tells us about the Scotland-UK relationship and devolution more broadly. He argues that the Bill presents a challenge to the unwritten constitution, and that now is the time to clarify and codify the territorial aspects to make a statement about how and why the Union hangs together. […]
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