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Underreported: Devolution in the UK
Thursday, April 12, 2007
In 1997, Britain's Labour government introduced the process of devolution, which transfers more political power to Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. On today's Underreported, John Prideaux, political correspondent for The Economist, talks about how devolution has changed concepts of statehood and citizenship in the UK.
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A follow-up question for Mr. Prideaux: In view of the relative success of devolution in Scotland and Wales, do you think that if such a "Home Rule" policy had been implemented in Ireland before WW I, that the Republic of Ireland would today still be part of the U. K. and that there never would have been an Easter Rebellion and subsequent Civil War?
John R. Connor
Mr Prideaux says that in 10 or 20 years a Scottish like nationalist party will form in Northern ireland.
Does he not think that in that time northern ireland will be part of a united ireland.
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