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The Supreme Court’s devolution jurisprudence has ebbed as well as flowed. It may be that the high-water mark was left by Robinson v Secretary of State for Northern Ireland [2002] UKHL 32 and AXA General Insurance v Lord Advocate [2011] UKSC 46 and that...

Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen, including the publication of the government’s Brexit white paper John McDonnell’s Today interview - Summary Afternoon summary 5.12pm GMT Related: The white paper on Brexit: a wish...

25th October This article by Kez first appeared on LabourList. All across the world, people want decisions taken at a local level. The days of centralised, one-size-fits-all organisations are gone. They aren’t coming back. We can either put our heads...

In the new age of alternative facts, even Sean Spicer might struggle to spin Tuesday’s Supreme Court judgment as anything other than a comprehensive defeat for the government. Yet, as my colleague Dominic Ruck Keene’s post alluded to, the ultimate political...

This post is about whether Brexit requires legislative consent from the devolved legislatures, particularly the Scottish Parliament, and what that consent relates to – whether the whole process of Brexit, or only aspects of it.  It argues that the English...