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Best laid schemes

Last week the Government laid out the draft Scotland Bill promising greater control of tax and spend for Scotland. Jonathan Werran examines the detail and the implications for the wider UK devolution programme either side of May’s General Election

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By Jonathan Werran | 26 January 2015

Last September's Scottish independence referendum was one of the most seismic political moments in recent political memory.

Unleashing a degree of passion and commitment from both ‘yes' and ‘no' camps and galvanising a degree of genuine popular engagement rarely witnessed, the leaders of the three main parties soon realised the preservation of the 307-year political Union could not survive maintenance of the existing settlement.

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