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Supporters of the Union celebrate as Scotland votes No to independence

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Alex Salmond concedes defeat in the campaign, but says the result

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shows huge demand for change and calls for the swift devolution

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David Cameron promises to deliver on his commitment to more Scottish

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But he also says it's time for English devolution,

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including an end to Scottish MPs voting on purely English matters

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Ed Miliband could lack a majority for his English agenda

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if he couldn't count on his Scottish votes.

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In the end, the NOs had it and by a bigger 10-point majority than

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Over the next hour, we'll bring you all the latest

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on last night's historic vote and the big constitutional changes for

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the whole of the UK which are now promised by all the main parties.

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It was a solid margin of victory for the No campaign in Scotland,

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one that looks like settling the matter for the foreseeable future.

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55% voted in favour of Scotland remaining part of the UK,

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It was the highest ever turn-out in a British election,

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with 85% of those who'd registered to vote casting their ballot.

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That meant that just over two million voters said No -

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Speaking shortly after 6am this morning, the First Minister

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of Scotland, Alex Salmond, conceded defeat, but demanded that party

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leaders in Westminster make good on their last-minute campaign promise

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Scotland has, by majority, decided not, at this stage, to become an

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independent country. I accept that verdict of the people and I call on

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all of Scotland to follow suit and access the democratic verdict of the

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people of Scotland. - accept. All of us in this campaign will say

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that 55%, that 1.6 million votes is a substantial vote for Scottish

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independence and the future of this country.

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Less than an hour later, at just after 7am, David Cameron spoke to

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The people of Scotland have spoken and it is a clear result. They've

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kept our country of four nations together. Like millions of other

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people, I am delighted. As I said during the campaign, it would have

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broken my heart to see our United Kingdom come to an end and I know

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that sentiment was shared by people not just across our country, bottles

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around the world because of what we've achieved together in the past

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and what we can do together in the future.

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But he didn't just repeat his promise to Scotland.

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Under pressure from his backbenchers and even

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a few cabinet ministers, he had a commitment to the rest of the UK.

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The crucial part missing from this national discussing - discussion is

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England. We've heard the voice of Scotland and now the millions of

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voices of England must also be heard. The question of English votes

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for English laws, the so-called West Lothian question, requires a

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decisive answer. Just as Scotland will vote separately in the Scottish

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Parliament on their issues of tax, spending and welfare, so to England,

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as well as Wales and Northern Ireland, should be able to vote on

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these issues. All this must take in place in tandem with and at the same

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pace as the Scotland. The Prime Minister adding in English

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devolution and maybe more devolution for Wales and Northern Ireland, on

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top of his promise for more devolution to Scotland. We will be

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joined shortly by Kevin McCann of the observer, who backed the yes

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campaign. We are waiting for him in class guy. - Glasgow.

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And with me here in London are Anne McElvoy of the Economist,

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Let's talk now to the Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon,

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Last night was a very good result for the no campaign. If we turn our

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minds back to what a lot of us were thinking at the outset when this

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referendum was announced, we thought the result would perhaps be more

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obviously a no. What has happened is the authority Mr Cameron has had has

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been eaten away and now he has to regain that. He has the ten point no

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vote under his belt, but if it had gone the other way, we would be

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talking about whether he would survive. Is it going to be the

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disunited States of Britain? How does he get around that? Ten points

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isn't bad as a lead. It is a good lead. If I was advising Scots, I

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would say listen carefully to what Alex Salmond said, he said at this

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stage. Would you really not take no for an answer? That the Scottish

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National question. I don't think Scotland needs a Scottish National

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party any more, it needs a realignment of its own politics so

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it can get on with the business of discussing its own top one of the

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striking aspects of the campaign was a lot of Scots didn't know what the

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Scottish Government was responsible for. Now it will get more powers so

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there's an argument for realising - realigning in Scotland. There was a

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panic and we saw that panic. There was a sense in which constant nation

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- constitutional reform was privatised to Gordon Brown.

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Outsourcing. I like the word privatised and Gordon Brown being

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together. He's now living with that, he has to do something that. The

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backbenches and some of his cabinet ministers are furious at the lack of

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consultation so they are saying, you can go ahead and do this, but we

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want English devolution as well. We are back to the Michael Howard

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proposal. English votes, England needs more of a say. David Cameron

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back then was supportive of that view, and then decided to go for an

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all in approach, turned himself into that kind of Tory leader. If he

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turned himself back, he has to take this seriously. Devo-max being

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thrown onto the table. It's not devo-max. Devo-max applies to

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basically everything is devolved, including all taxation powers except

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foreign policy, defence and make - macroeconomic policy. Devo-max would

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involve Scots collecting all their tax. This is TiVo plus.

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- devo-plus. This is where the immediate pressure is going to come

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from. Why did he not consult his party? They didn't expect this.

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Would it have been better to put that devo thing on the agenda

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earlier so everyone could have a say? The sense that his party didn't

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have a say was what I was driving at. Although they have a fair idea

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what they want to do in Scotland, I would suggest they are at base camp

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with what they want to do in England and there is no agreement between

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the parties. The problem is every attempt the governments have had to

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make the English accept greater devolution has been defeated by

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English people. Most viewers of this programme do not even know that in

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2004 there was a referendum in which 900,000 people voted by 78% to 22%

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not to have a regional assembly. When they put the question of having

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an elected mayors to the major cities in the autumn of 2012, eight

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out of the nine asked said no. Only Bristol said yes and Doncaster said

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they wanted to retain one. The assumption made that the English are

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gagging for particular forms of devolution is not true. Talk to

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people about constitutional reform in this country, as I found out, is

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really tricky. But what has happened in England, and the polls show

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this, is that with Scottish devolution and the Scottish argument

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being on our TV sets every night, the English are starting to say, if

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it's good enough to Scotland, we'll have some of that. Don't divide us

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by region, don't think that decentralisation to big cities is

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the same as devolution, we want to vote on our schools in the same way

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Scotland does. David is right, every time they've been offered Ham and

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eggs or double ham and eggs, everybody said they didn't want ham

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and dates. That's different to a situation where Scotland has been

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thrown extra powers in it attempt to keep it in the union, which was

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successful. The mood around it is different now to what David

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describes. Things were often put to people when they weren't prepared.

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Psychologically or emotionally. It's very different and the degree of

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engagement in England, listening to people in supermarkets, they are

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very engaged now with the Scottish question in a way they weren't. Even

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if that's true, there's a problem. Morning the Prime Minister hitched

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English devolution to Scottish devolution. The two had to go in

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tandem. I don't see how they can do that. That's a real problem. They

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got some kind of agreement about what should go to Scotland in the

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event of a no vote. They should deliver on that before we start

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messing around with questions of devolution in England. The question

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of an English parliament is so fraught with difficulties for the

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simple reason that if you have a First Minister of England, what's

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the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for? You do in Germany and a

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lot of federal countries. You have very powerful first ministers.

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England is so much bigger than any of the other components put

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together. The only equivalent of having a lender system in England

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would be divide England into equal parts, London and the Midlands and

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so on. And there's no appetite for that at the moment. I would support

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it, but almost everything I support, people don't like. We will talk a

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lot about this. Let's go live to Glasgow when Norman Smith is. What's

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it like the morning after the night before? It's striking. Glass go is

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one of the few places that voted yes and people are having to come to

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terms with last night's decision. Although we heard a lot about the

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motivation and the commitment and the pattern - Passion of the yes

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side, maybe what we underestimated wants this ear - sheer determination

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of the quiet no majority to come out and vote. These are people who buy

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and large weren't doing interviews, they weren't doing vox pops in the

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street, but in the privacy of the polling booth, they let their true

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feelings show. The second thing is looking at the Labour vote, there

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seemed a moment when Alex Salmond was just taking huge chunks out of

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it. What we saw last night is when you look at Clackmannanshire,

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Renfrewshire, those kinds of places, the Labour vote held up much

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better than even some of the Labour people thought. Why? I suspect in

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part it was because of Gordon Brown's intervention. He galvanised

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the Labour vote where previously it seemed flat and dispirited. I do

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think his intervention was almost in a motion or kick-start for the

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Labour vote which in the end, by and large, hung in there on the side of

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the no team. The silent majority and a more solid Labour vote explain why

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at the end of the day the no side have recorded a fairly significant

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victory. Norman, are we sure that the Nationalists will accept this is

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over for the foreseeable future? Perhaps for a generation? Will they

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look at bringing it back? Is Alex Salmond's position safe or is Nicola

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Sturgeon beginning to measure the curtains? My sense of the latter

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part is that Alex Salmond's position is certainly safe for now. If he had

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been pushed down to 40% or below, I think it would be a very, very

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different situation. He can now point to pushing up the

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pro-independence phot to 45%. Bear in mind a few months ago it was down

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at 25%. He's pushed it right out and he will get more powers from

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Westminster so he can claim that is a significant achievement. Is

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independence over for a generation? I would be cautious about that. When

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Alex Salmond has said it's over for a generation, he always that is my

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view. He won't be around for a generation. There will be a new

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generation of Scottish Nationalists. Will they sit on their hands

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forever? That's more questionable. In the interim, will the SNP

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strategy not be, given where they did do well, what you would call

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Labour areas, Dundee, Glasgow and so on, will they not now attempt to

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replace Scottish Labour as the country's centre-left party? One of

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the interesting things about this whole referendum, it is basically

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round one between the Scottish National party and the Labour Party,

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who are engaged in pretty much a fight to the death to be the left of

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centre party in Scotland, and we will see round two in the 2016

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general election, and who knows, maybe we will see Gordon Brown

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against Nicola Sturgeon. But it is a fight to the death between the two

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stipes -- Nicolas Sturgeon. The question is whether the Labour Party

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managers to reenergise itself, rebuild itself, because it has been

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profoundly damaged by the perception of being in hock to the London

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party, but not for the understanding the aspirations and sentiment, and

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even nationalism. There is a bit task for the Labour Party to try to

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counterpart the SNP's, nation of centre politics. One of the threads

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Scottish Labour may face is that the Nationalists will say all right, you

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have voted no, but you can't trust these people in Westminster. They

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may not deliver this home rule, as Gordon Brown called it. The surest

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way of doing it is to send us to Westminster. We will keep their feet

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to the fire. Obviously, the SNP, now independents has gone, has to keep

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itself by continuously suggesting there is a tension between Scotland

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and Westminster, but there are dangers for Alex Salmond and the SNP

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in doing that, because one of the things that polls show, in

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attitudinal terms, is Scotland is put in much the same as everybody

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else in the United Kingdom, which leaves an immense space in the

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centre right, which the SNP has imposed a Nationalist blanket over

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the large sections of the centre-left and centre-right. The

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question or not is whether Scotland retains that. One of the hidden

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things in it has been the extraordinary performance of the

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Scots Conservatives. 95% of them wanted to stay. They got the vote. I

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am not completely ruling out a return of a centre-right bloc which

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would give the SNP some problems. There won't be a centre right swing,

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and that is why the Conservatives want all income taxed to go there,

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because they want a correlation between how much the parliament

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spends on how much is taxed. Then the interim, I would suggest, even

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though the side one, there is something of a crisis for the

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Scottish Labour Party. I think so, and I think the fact that Gordon

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Brown, and I have to say, I think his performance was absolutely

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instrumental in this result. I think the Scottish Labour Party looked...

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I no they sense only people up there, the rising generation, the Ed

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Miliband stars over the summer, and in fact it didn't seem to do much

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good at all, and it was only when Gordon came up with those jump leads

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he provided to the No campaign, he found the hearts and minds of the

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central Belt. That's when things started to change. Gordon is not a

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player now. What are you going to do now? Let me quickly go back to

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Norman, finally. Does it not tell us something about the state of the

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Scottish Labour Party, Norman, that the big figures on the Labour side

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for better together were Alistair Darling, Westminster MP, Gordon

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Brown, Westminster MP, Jim Murphy, Westminster MP, indeed at one Better

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Together meeting run by Labour, they said they would rather have Ruth

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Davidson fan Joanne Lamont. I take your point, but I would not

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underestimate the galvanising effect this result probably has on the

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Scottish Labour Party. They have been taking a battering for a long

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time, and I wonder if this will give them a chance just to draw breath

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and represent themselves to the Scottish people. I do also say watch

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Gordon Brown. I see he is making a big speech tomorrow, just listening

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to the language of that man, ice eyes he sees a role for himself back

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in -- I surmise he sees a role for himself back in front line politics

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in Scotland. He hasn't said as much, but the reception he has received,

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he has energised, he is full of it, it has a passion for Scotland. We

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remember him down at Westminster, a broken, cowled, shrunken figure. It

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is like Gordon Brown of 20 years ago here. If I had money to place, I

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would say Gordon Brown would seek to lead the Scottish Labour Party.

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Really? Have you told Jim Murphy that yet, Norman? LAUGHTER

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Not yet, that's a very good point! It is clear they are going to have

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to do something. If they face an attack from the SNP on the left,

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they will have to energise it. When I was out in North Lanarkshire and

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Hamilton, a lot of lapsed Labour voters, a lot of people who had been

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lifetime Labour voters, but they were voting yes. They were voting

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for independence because they just felt that the Labour Party did not

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do anything for them any more. Let's be honest, the Labour Party has been

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for so long the establishment up there, and in many ways not always a

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very attractive sort of establishment. And the other thing,

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which I think they struggle from, is that many, many people who vote for

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the Scottish National party are clearly not Nationalists. They vote

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for the SNP, I think, because they think the SNP will strike a much

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harder deal with Westminster politicians, and they want somebody

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who will go into the corner and fight much harder than they suspect

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Labour politicians, who perhaps are a bit more accommodating, because

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they are part of a UK wide party. So if you a Scot who wants a better

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deal for Scotland and more power devolved Scotland, and you want to

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stand up to the Westminster government, you may not be a

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Nationalist but you may think you know what, I think those SNP people

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will get me a better deal, and I suspect that probably fuels a lot of

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the SNP support up here. Norman, thanks for that, and for all of our

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interviews during this campaign, it's been a pleasure, thank you very

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much. Where does Labour go here? There is a danger for Labour in this

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that they could lose seats to the Nationalists. They have now got this

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question of the Tories in England putting the West Lothian question.

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The risk is that Lynton Crosby will unleash the anti-English attack on

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them. But I am not at all sure in the sort of seats where Labour are

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fighting the Tories, one of the biggest problem is that was obvious

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was when Ed Miliband went up to Scotland from England, nobody really

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much seemed to notice him. All right, let's leave that here for the

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moment. I want to go to the Defence Secretary, Michael Fallon, he is in

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Westminster. Welcome to the Daily Politics. When the Prime Minister

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outsourced constitutional reform to Gordon Brown, was the cabinet

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consulted? Look, he didn't outsource it to Gordon Brown first we have

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been looking at these things for a long time as you know very well,

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Andrew. We had the Mackay commission looking at the sorts of things,

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successive Cabinet commissions have been looking at this. William Hague

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is now to take this forward, we have the Liberal Democrats participating.

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Even this morning, the Scottish Nationalist party participating. The

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question is will Labour stepped up to the plate and join in? Gordon

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Brown made some specific devolution proposals and backed it up with a

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timetable, talking about command white papers. Was that run past the

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Cabinet? We have been discussing these things, as I have just told

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you, for a long time. Was it run past the Cabinet? It is a simple

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question. The simple answer is yes, we did discuss the constitutional

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settlement, we have been doing that for a long time. Did the full

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Cabinet discussed the proposal is that Gordon Brown made in his

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speech, yes or no? You are getting into procedural points. Let me tell

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you that the government has been discussing more devolution for

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Scotland ever since the Mackay commission reported... Was the

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Cabinet consulted? The Cabinet has been involved in this whole process

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right from the very start, and we have now set out a very clear

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timetable, not simply Gordon Brown's timetable, we have set that

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out now, there will be a working party under William Hague, a

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consultation, a white paper, then draft legislation. We are going to

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aim to do all of that before the election express. Did you know what

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Gordon Brown was going to say before he said it? We all know what the

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drift of this is, we have got to offer the Scottish people and the

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Scottish Parliament a better settlement. We have to do the same

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for England as well. You know the drift but not the content? I don't

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look at the exact content of Gordon Brown's speeches, I don't think he

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looks at mine, but we are all clear, ourselves and the Liberal Democrats

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and the SNP this morning, that we need to re-examine the current

:25:09.:25:10.

devolution settlement both for England and for Scotland, and we

:25:11.:25:14.

have now set out a very clear timetable for doing that. So the

:25:15.:25:19.

question of who exactly said what when and so on really is less

:25:20.:25:22.

academic than that commitment from the three main parties to get on

:25:23.:25:25.

with this now. Do you agree with your former Cabinet colleague, Owen

:25:26.:25:29.

Paterson, that the Prime Minister has agreed to some "very rash

:25:30.:25:35.

promises"? No, I don't agree with that. We need to have more

:25:36.:25:40.

devolution, and acknowledge the strength of feeling in Scotland.

:25:41.:25:44.

They need more control over tax, overspending, over the welfare

:25:45.:25:47.

system, but it's equally important to recognise that you can't do that

:25:48.:25:52.

without a fair and balanced system that will allowing them to have the

:25:53.:25:54.

same, and will make sure that English votes only for English laws

:25:55.:26:00.

and English taxes. That is what I think Owen Paterson will welcome.

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English votes for English laws, is that the policy of the coalition or

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the policy of the Conservative Party? It is certainly the policy of

:26:10.:26:14.

the Conservative Party, the Prime Minister said that at this morning.

:26:15.:26:19.

The Liberal Democrats too want to see a rebalanced political

:26:20.:26:23.

settlement. The question you should be asking is Labour prepared to

:26:24.:26:27.

answer this, prepared to step up and accent that Scottish Labour MPs

:26:28.:26:32.

should no longer vote on taxes and laws and welfare that applies only

:26:33.:26:36.

in England, and you should be asking Labour that very question. I am

:26:37.:26:40.

always grateful when you help me to give questions to the Labour Party,

:26:41.:26:44.

though to be honest, I do really need your help. Let me ask you this

:26:45.:26:49.

instead, if the coalition, the Lib Dems, are largely onside with this,

:26:50.:26:53.

why did Danny Alexander say on the 17th of September, only a few days

:26:54.:26:57.

ago, there is no party proposing to take away the voting rights of

:26:58.:27:01.

Scottish MPs, that is not part of the agenda, that is not what is

:27:02.:27:05.

going to happen? I will help you further here by saying obviously you

:27:06.:27:09.

need to ask Danny Alexander to account for what he has said. We set

:27:10.:27:13.

out our position very carefully, the new settlement has to be fairer...

:27:14.:27:18.

But you don't me you had the Lib Dems onside. They are onside in

:27:19.:27:22.

recognising that we'd have a more balanced settlement. That is not

:27:23.:27:26.

going to happen, what a bit of the English language do you not

:27:27.:27:30.

understand about Danny Alexander saying it is not going to happen. We

:27:31.:27:36.

will see. William Hague will convene these discussions with the liberal

:27:37.:27:41.

Democrats, and part of the Coalition Government. Obviously, we hope other

:27:42.:27:45.

parties will contribute as well. The other encouraging news is that the

:27:46.:27:50.

SNP will, you have already accepted that you need to press Labour on

:27:51.:27:54.

that. Nobody has an exact way forward here. It is a difficult

:27:55.:27:57.

question, but we are going to get to grips with it and publish our

:27:58.:28:01.

proposals before the general election. The prime and are still

:28:02.:28:05.

says that he needed consensus to take these English devolution

:28:06.:28:09.

proposals forward. If you have Danny Alexander saying it's not going to

:28:10.:28:13.

happen, and we know from speaking to Labour MPs that that is the last

:28:14.:28:16.

thing they want, to lose their voting rights of Scottish MPs, where

:28:17.:28:23.

is the consensus coming from? All parties have to accept, now, that

:28:24.:28:27.

there is a great deal of unease in England, in other parts of the

:28:28.:28:33.

United Kingdom. If more powers are granted to Scotland without some

:28:34.:28:38.

compensating rebalancing of the Blitz was adamant. You will hear

:28:39.:28:43.

voices in the Labour Party, like John Denham, recognising that, and I

:28:44.:28:45.

am sure there are English Liberal Democrats who will recognise that as

:28:46.:28:51.

well. If you cannot get agreement on English devolution, does the plan

:28:52.:28:56.

for Scottish devolution, as outlined in Gordon Brown's timetable with

:28:57.:29:02.

government backing, does it still go ahead if there is not an agreement

:29:03.:29:08.

for English devolution? We are hoping for agreement, we are not

:29:09.:29:11.

planning on failing, and we are hoping for draft legislation before

:29:12.:29:14.

the election so it can be legislated, and be in the

:29:15.:29:19.

manifestoes of the political parties at the general election, so the

:29:20.:29:22.

electorate can also pronounce on whether they access these proposals,

:29:23.:29:26.

then we can put them into statute if they do, early in 2015. In Europe,

:29:27.:29:32.

the unlikely event you don't get agreement, others may think it is

:29:33.:29:36.

highly unlikely you don't, can Scottish devolution go-ahead on its

:29:37.:29:40.

own? Can you meet that thou that was made on the front page of the daily

:29:41.:29:44.

record to the Scottish people come up Will they have to wait until you

:29:45.:29:50.

sort out English devolution? Our aim is to get agreement on this before

:29:51.:29:53.

the general election, and that is what we're doing urgently now in

:29:54.:29:56.

response to the vote last night and the unease that is in inland that if

:29:57.:30:01.

any further parties -- in England if any further powers are given to

:30:02.:30:06.

Scotland, they should be balanced in England. We are not aiming to fail.

:30:07.:30:11.

Can you just explain to our viewers, including your backbench colleagues

:30:12.:30:15.

who may be watching this, what is the logic of giving the Scottish

:30:16.:30:19.

Parliament substantial tax raising powers, which is what you intend to

:30:20.:30:24.

do, and at the same time enshrining and guarantee -- guaranteeing the

:30:25.:30:37.

Barnett formula? The Barnett formula is declining in importance. It still

:30:38.:30:43.

gives per capita spending in Scotland anything from ?1200 to

:30:44.:30:49.

?1500 more. That recognises some of the differences in Scotland, the

:30:50.:30:53.

wider geography and some of the issues in Scotland of dealing with

:30:54.:31:00.

more remote areas. I'm sorry, the Barnett formula does not recognise

:31:01.:31:04.

that. The Barnett formula is purely based on population. It has nothing

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to do with geography, nothing to do with need, it is purely population.

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Let me correct you. The reason the formula was introduced in 1978,

:31:15.:31:19.

statistically it's based on population, but it was precisely to

:31:20.:31:23.

introduced give the Scottish office and now the Scottish Government more

:31:24.:31:28.

flexibility to move spending between different spending lines to cope

:31:29.:31:32.

with the fact that Scotland has a much greater landmass, a different

:31:33.:31:36.

geography, remote areas and there are more Scottish choices to be made

:31:37.:31:44.

between different spending lines. Why did Joe Barnett tell me that it

:31:45.:31:48.

had nothing to do with need or geography? Why did he tell me that?

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Do you do - do you know more about it than the man who invented it? I

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know the purpose of it. It does reflect the fact that Scotland has

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different needs and a different geography to England, just as in

:32:05.:32:07.

England we make sure there is more spending that goes to remote areas

:32:08.:32:11.

like Cornwall or the north-west of England or where ever it is. We

:32:12.:32:29.

recognise these things in public spending, but it is declining in its

:32:30.:32:32.

significance because we have delegated more powers anyway to the

:32:33.:32:34.

Scottish Parliament. If it's to do with geography and sparse

:32:35.:32:36.

population, why does Wales do badly out of the Barnett formula and

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Scotland do well? I don't agree. It does! I don't agree. They do better

:32:39.:32:43.

than England out of the formula and that recognises that peripheral

:32:44.:32:49.

parts of the UK have different geographies and slightly different

:32:50.:32:52.

priorities when it comes to what they want to spend their money on.

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It also recognises that they should have the ability to switch spending

:32:56.:33:01.

if they don't need it in particular areas and they have a higher

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priority in others. That was the essence of the Barnett formula. It

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gave them more flexibility and more abilities to switch. All right,

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thank you. It's a busy day for you, but at least you don't have to worry

:33:18.:33:20.

about repositioning the nuclear submarines! Let's go to Glasgow. I

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said we would speak to Kevin McCabe of the Observer. He backed the yes

:33:29.:33:35.

campaign. Why did you lose? Hello, say that again. Why did you lose? I

:33:36.:33:48.

think the stampede over the last ten days of the four horsemen of the

:33:49.:33:53.

British establishment coming north, spreading scare stories... I thought

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it was the three Stooges! If you include big business, corporate

:34:02.:34:04.

interest, the banks, Westminster, the massed ranks of the endless

:34:05.:34:12.

-based media, they were spending - spreading a compelling story for

:34:13.:34:15.

people in Scotland watching the pennies, people with a new mortgage

:34:16.:34:19.

trying to find a deposit, a couple of children preschool who perhaps

:34:20.:34:25.

had espoused sympathy for nationalism and independents in the

:34:26.:34:29.

last 18 months, but in the secrecy and the quietness of the polling

:34:30.:34:34.

booth began to consider things. I think also the Nationalists were

:34:35.:34:44.

always climbing down escalator, basically. They had started off with

:34:45.:34:53.

a deficit of 25 to 30 points. 22. They had glimpsed Eden over the

:34:54.:34:57.

horizon about ten days ago. There was always going to be a tall order.

:34:58.:35:01.

I think there were still questions about currency and it's all very

:35:02.:35:08.

well for us and the chattering classes and the political classes to

:35:09.:35:13.

talk about currency or dismissed concerns, but working men wondering

:35:14.:35:16.

what their pay packet will look like can be quite a compelling

:35:17.:35:20.

distraction. I always thought we called them the blethering classes

:35:21.:35:27.

in Scotland! I understand all that and I'm sure that played a role in

:35:28.:35:33.

the no vote being larger than most people thought it would be. But

:35:34.:35:37.

didn't we know the impact that that was having and yet right up to the

:35:38.:35:43.

end, most of the leaders of the yes campaign that time it worked pretty

:35:44.:35:47.

convincing to me that they thought they would win. Well, we've

:35:48.:35:55.

basically in new territory. Most of those people would have been

:35:56.:35:58.

veterans of multiparty elections and even some of the posters I spoke to

:35:59.:36:03.

in the last week were nursing some serious misgivings and wondering if

:36:04.:36:10.

they were going to be in 1992 situation again when they called

:36:11.:36:13.

finial Kinnock and he was beaten roundly. - Neil Kinnock. One of the

:36:14.:36:19.

things was the sheer scale of numbers. They had never been in this

:36:20.:36:25.

territory before with an expected 80% plus turnout. They were looking

:36:26.:36:29.

at margins of error. With the best will in the world, no matter how

:36:30.:36:34.

good the strategists were on either side, it was new territory. One

:36:35.:36:38.

thing the Nationalists have always been good at is espousing optimism,

:36:39.:36:43.

always talking about hope. They were much more visible throughout the

:36:44.:36:48.

campaign than the no side. Perhaps there were some people on the

:36:49.:36:52.

national side who were a little more seduced by the visible signs of

:36:53.:36:57.

optimism and confidence and what we were going to do than was perhaps

:36:58.:37:02.

the case. That palpably was the case. Where does the independence

:37:03.:37:13.

movement go from here? It's a very interesting question. Alex Salmond,

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as you know, has been talking about independence being off the table for

:37:20.:37:23.

a generation. However, that's not what I'm hearing up here. The four

:37:24.:37:30.

council areas where the yes vote held up were amongst the most poor,

:37:31.:37:36.

the ones with the most problems of social deprivation. These are major

:37:37.:37:41.

Labour areas. The Nationalists would not have achieved anything like a

:37:42.:37:49.

45% vote if it hadn't been for the wholesale defection of tens of

:37:50.:37:53.

thousands of Labour voters. Therein lies a massive problem for the

:37:54.:37:57.

Labour Party in Scotland. A year after the Westminster elections, we

:37:58.:38:01.

have the Holyrood elections. Thousands of Labour voters who were

:38:02.:38:07.

made to feel like ghosts and demonised in their own party may

:38:08.:38:11.

choose then to visit some replies all on the Scottish Labour Party.

:38:12.:38:17.

That would probably lead to a second consecutive overall SNP majority. If

:38:18.:38:22.

the parties of the union do not deliver the full extent of their

:38:23.:38:26.

promises of greater devolved powers, many in the SNP, I suspect, will see

:38:27.:38:32.

that as a mandate, along with the fact that 1.6 million people voted

:38:33.:38:36.

for independence last night. They'll see that as a mandate for calling

:38:37.:38:41.

for another referendum and that's a problem that Ed Miliband, David

:38:42.:38:45.

Cameron. Ed Miliband has a problem with what has happened to the Labour

:38:46.:38:49.

Party in Scotland. Is it not a problem for Scotland, too, that it

:38:50.:38:57.

gets locked up in referendums and the constitutional issue takes up

:38:58.:39:02.

all the energy when what is needed is energy for economic growth, jobs,

:39:03.:39:09.

anti-poverty policies, child poverty strategies. Isn't there a danger

:39:10.:39:13.

that constitutional matters overshadow everything else? Yeah,

:39:14.:39:17.

there is a degree of that, Andrew, but you know what else? Fashion all

:39:18.:39:22.

politicians, careerist politicians, which Westminster is full of these

:39:23.:39:27.

days, not to mention a lot of Holyrood, they hate the fact, and

:39:28.:39:32.

they are scared, a lot of these people were scared to their very

:39:33.:39:37.

foundations because of what happened in Scotland in the last 18 months.

:39:38.:39:41.

There was a transferrin is, if you like, of political know-how and

:39:42.:39:48.

politics taken out of the ivory towers, the gilded chambers of

:39:49.:39:52.

Holyrood and Westminster and onto the streets. The last thing they

:39:53.:39:55.

would want is for this to happen again. I've seen a lot of people on

:39:56.:40:00.

both sides energised and politicised and that means tens of thousands

:40:01.:40:05.

more people now have the tools and the information and the ability to

:40:06.:40:10.

obtain that information, to scrutinise the doings of the elected

:40:11.:40:16.

masters to a greater degree than was previously apparent. Thank you for

:40:17.:40:19.

that. It is clear that although you didn't get the result you wanted,

:40:20.:40:24.

Scottish politics will not be the same again, or even Scottish

:40:25.:40:28.

society. Thank you for joining us. What did you make of that? Kevin or

:40:29.:40:35.

your Gilbert and Sullivan interviewed with Michael Fallon?

:40:36.:40:39.

Only the British Conservative Party in its present state could bring you

:40:40.:40:43.

such an Op Urreta as they are now going to. The obvious answer is we

:40:44.:40:47.

will sort out the Scottish question and then we will get together with

:40:48.:40:53.

the other parties and sort out the bigger English question. Maybe David

:40:54.:40:56.

Cameron's backbenchers won't let him do that. They can be fetid. -

:40:57.:41:05.

defeated. What will the Lib Dems do if the coalition? It's quite

:41:06.:41:09.

possible there is no proposition to go with Labour or the Liberal

:41:10.:41:15.

Democrats. Relying upon a whole lot of Cross backbenchers is not his

:41:16.:41:19.

best option. Nevertheless, that seems to be the way he's playing it.

:41:20.:41:26.

I greatly enjoyed going through that with Michael Fallon, but he has to

:41:27.:41:32.

make this thing work. He seemed to suggest the solution would be found

:41:33.:41:37.

in seven months. This is one of this you just constitutional shifts. This

:41:38.:41:42.

is the sort of thing countries spend years on. The problem David Cameron

:41:43.:41:48.

has now got, he's got from now until the election, cross voters in

:41:49.:41:51.

England, Nigel Farage this morning stirring it up, he has to produce

:41:52.:41:56.

something that looks like it can balance out the devolution offered

:41:57.:41:59.

to Scotland within seven months. I don't think you can. He has to do a

:42:00.:42:05.

lot of smoke and mirrors to make it look like he's taking it seriously.

:42:06.:42:10.

It's clear that a no result, although it removes the existential

:42:11.:42:14.

threat to the British state for now, raises a whole lot of other issues

:42:15.:42:18.

as well that have yet to be resolved. We've already talked about

:42:19.:42:22.

the extra powers that will be default to Scotland. It's not

:42:23.:42:26.

exactly clear what they will be. Labour and Conservative don't agree

:42:27.:42:29.

on how much income tax will be devolved. We do know the timetable

:42:30.:42:37.

as outlined by Gordon Brown. What about the detail?

:42:38.:42:44.

Holyrood will already gained some new powers from the Scotland act of

:42:45.:42:49.

2012, which will mean that in 2016 Edinburgh will have the power to

:42:50.:42:54.

vary income tax by 10p and borrow more money. However there is

:42:55.:42:58.

currently disagreement over how much further Westminster should go. The

:42:59.:43:03.

Conservatives want to see Scotland given complete power over income tax

:43:04.:43:08.

and possibly a share of VAT receipts. Labour would vary the

:43:09.:43:13.

amount income tax can be changed from 10p to 15p as well as default

:43:14.:43:19.

thing other areas such as housing benefit. The Liberal Democrats are

:43:20.:43:30.

in favour of a federal United Kingdom and they would give Scotland

:43:31.:43:32.

further control over taxation, including inheritance tax, capital

:43:33.:43:34.

gains tax and income tax. However, as David Cameron indicated this

:43:35.:43:36.

morning, it's not just Scotland that could see a power change. The Prime

:43:37.:43:41.

Minister said he wants to see a fair and balanced settlement with only

:43:42.:43:44.

English MPs being allowed to decide on English laws in Parliament.

:43:45.:43:50.

Conservative MPs were vocal this morning, calling for more English

:43:51.:43:55.

devolution. So was Nigel Farage. Labour's spokespeople were thin on

:43:56.:43:59.

the ground. Eventually we got this from Ed Miliband. We will also meet

:44:00.:44:04.

the desire for change across England, Wales and the whole of the

:44:05.:44:09.

UK. Devolution is not just a good idea for Scotland and Wales, it is a

:44:10.:44:13.

good idea for England and Northern Ireland, as it is already. It's also

:44:14.:44:20.

the case, friends, that we must meet the first change in reforming the of

:44:21.:44:26.

our country and who it works for. Gordon Brown only got a passing

:44:27.:44:30.

mention in that speech. The Deputy Prime Minister was also pressing for

:44:31.:44:34.

a new agreement for England and the rest of the UK. We need to address

:44:35.:44:40.

this huge missing bit of the jigsaw, which is England. For far too long,

:44:41.:44:44.

far too many decisions have been taken on by half of the towns,

:44:45.:44:50.

villages, cities and counties of England by Westminster and Whitehall

:44:51.:44:55.

and we need to release that grip of Westminster and Whitehall which has

:44:56.:44:58.

stifled governments across England for too long. I see today is the

:44:59.:45:03.

beginning of the process, not the end, where we reaffirm what unites

:45:04.:45:09.

us. Nigel Farage has also been getting stuck into the debate this

:45:10.:45:12.

morning, there's a surprise, demanding a better deal for

:45:13.:45:17.

England. I'm sorry, quite honestly, the English taxpayer has been very

:45:18.:45:21.

patient, very quiet through this. We spent as a nation ?1600 a head more

:45:22.:45:26.

on every Scot than we do on every English person. The Barnett formula

:45:27.:45:31.

is should be debated openly in the House of Commons. Let's get the

:45:32.:45:33.

country involved. OK, let's talk to James Landale in

:45:34.:45:44.

Downing Street. When was it decided that English devolution would now go

:45:45.:45:49.

in tandem with Scottish devolution? I think it has been in the minds of

:45:50.:45:53.

David Cameron and his advisers ever since they realise they have two say

:45:54.:45:56.

something to try and shift the debate within the referendum. It is,

:45:57.:46:00.

I have to say, Conservative policy, it was in the last manifesto so it

:46:01.:46:06.

is nothing new for them. But I think this strategic decision to link

:46:07.:46:09.

Scottish devolution with English devolution was the new idea, simply

:46:10.:46:12.

because, on the one hand, it makes it more likely that it will happen

:46:13.:46:16.

but also politically it makes it hugely difficult for the Labour

:46:17.:46:19.

Party, and I think that would have been very attractive, not just to

:46:20.:46:22.

David Cameron but also to George Osborne, who I believe has had his

:46:23.:46:25.

hands all over the statement this morning. Crucially, because it now

:46:26.:46:29.

puts the onus on the Labour Party to agree some kind of extra power for

:46:30.:46:40.

English MPs, that means less power for Scottish MPs, and that means a

:46:41.:46:42.

future Labour government would find it harder to get its legislation

:46:43.:46:45.

through. So, a huge challenge for Ed Miliband in the months ahead, as all

:46:46.:46:47.

the parties come together and they try to agree some kind of procedure,

:46:48.:46:51.

some kind of rule that they can all agree with and have some draft

:46:52.:46:55.

legislation by January, which is a very fast timetable that the Prime

:46:56.:47:01.

Minister has said. Does Mr Cameron's concept of English

:47:02.:47:06.

devolution involve any more than English votes for English laws?

:47:07.:47:10.

Well, today he was very specific, he said... He also said the same would

:47:11.:47:19.

be true in Northern Ireland and Wales. The key question is, what

:47:20.:47:23.

exactly would they be voting on? There is a difference between an

:47:24.:47:27.

indicative vote that allows English MPs to express their opinion, then

:47:28.:47:31.

there is colourful example, English MPs voting on the detailed of the

:47:32.:47:36.

legislation, maybe by setting up a special grand committee, and then

:47:37.:47:39.

there is the other end of the spectrum, essentially them voting on

:47:40.:47:44.

all English legislation entirely, effectively setting up an English

:47:45.:47:47.

parliament. I don't think they will go down that route. They will have

:47:48.:47:50.

to find a middle way some way that is enough to satisfy his Tory

:47:51.:47:54.

critics but enough that is sellable to the Labour Party, ultimately. I

:47:55.:48:00.

am joined now in the studio by Labour MP, Diane Abbott, she follows

:48:01.:48:04.

me everywhere. And by the Conservative back venture, Bernard

:48:05.:48:09.

Jenkin, in Westminster. Bernard, did the Prime Minister jumped the gun

:48:10.:48:17.

and trash the British constitution on the basis of a rogue poll? I

:48:18.:48:24.

don't think it's important. I don't know whether making these extra

:48:25.:48:27.

promises at the last minute had any effect on the pole. It was not as

:48:28.:48:32.

good a win as we wanted, and as a result of this whole exercise we do

:48:33.:48:35.

have the whole British constitution in something of a state of flux. The

:48:36.:48:40.

question is where we go from here. Would answering the West Lothian

:48:41.:48:43.

question in the way the Prime Minister has indicated, a newish

:48:44.:48:47.

votes for English laws, would that be enough for you on English

:48:48.:48:52.

devolution? I don't think it will be enough for English MPs. The

:48:53.:48:55.

principle should be, if we want the United Kingdom to survive, we have

:48:56.:48:59.

to have the four components of the union treated the same. So what is

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good for Scottish MPs in Holyrood has to be good for English MPs at

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Westminster. We should be able to decide our only just lesion in

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Westminster. The Mackay commission, which was set up to look at this,

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was a bit watery on the subject, and that's not good enough. What we want

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is to be able to control our own legislation in the same way as the

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Scots controlled the legislation, the Welsh, and Northern Ireland.

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What this envisages is a proper federal system, and the money has

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got to be decided on an equal and fair basis, as well. Just before I

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bring in Diane Abbott, can I just checked on a proper federal system?

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With that mean we have a Prime Minister for the United Kingdom and

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a First Minister for England? Yes. I see, quite radical change. You said

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to me last night on the results programme, Scotland Decides, that

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you thought the time would come for English votes for English laws, but

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that would be right. My view, and it is a personal view, is it is not

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intellectually coherent if the further devolution to Holyrood is

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going to mean anything to continue to have Scottish MPs voting on

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reserved matters. It is not your party bus like policy though, is it?

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I am not sure what my party's policy is. We are very reluctant to see

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Scottish MPs not allowed to vote, but the danger is if we don't arrive

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with a deal with the Tories on this devolution settlement promised by

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Gordon Brown before the general election, the real people who will

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suffer will be the Labour Party in Scotland, because the SNP will be

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running around saying look, we told you it was all meaningless. Bernard

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Jenkin, if we had a First Minister Finland, as we have the Scotland and

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Wales and Northern Ireland, would it have its own parliament and where

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would it be? No, I think the two days a week you have a Jewish MPs

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sitting as the English Parliament in the Palace of Westminster. Deciding

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-- you have English MPs sitting as being this Parliament. Supposing we

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devolve taxation powers to Scotland, are we seriously one day

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to have another Labour Chancellor, who might be Scottish, in his or her

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budget, setting out what the tax rates should be for people in

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England, but not able to set his or her own tax rate in Scotland? This

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is the West Lothian question getting more and more significant as more

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and more powers are devolved. This is a very Tory tradition, that we

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finish off other people's reforms that we opposed to start with. We

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opposed the reform act in 1832, we finished it with 1867, all male

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suffrage, and then suffrage for women later on. We opposed

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devolution. Well, we have devolution in Scotland and Wales and Northern

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Ireland now, we have to finish the job and have proper devolution in

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England as well full stop now you are stealing the Liberal

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Democrats's policy, which has always been in favour of this. I think the

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liberal democrats should come along with us on this. Is there any sign,

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Diane Abbott, that the Labour Party is thinking of a credible, serious,

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radical devolution policy for England? To be quite honest, the

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proposals we are talking about today were drawn up by Gordon Brown in the

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heat of what appeared to be a losing referendum battle. It's called

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panic. You can call it that, I couldn't possibly comment, but if

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the Labour Party is seen to not deliver on what Gordon Brown

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promised, we will pay a price. Bernard Jenkin, can I come back to

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you in the final minute? Your proposal for a federation is

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interesting but I propose to you that cannot be achieved in the

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short-term, that is a massive redrawing of the British

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constitution and would take years? Actually, we can organise the

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English vote for English laws without any UK override through our

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own standing orders and procedures. That could be done in a week. That

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does not create a federation. The question as to whether we should

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having this department and English ministers, that can evolve over

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time, let's not do that a rush and let's think about that. But the

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point is English votes for English laws has consequences for Whitehall.

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How could you have English MPs determining English laws but not

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able to hold accountable direct to them the ministers who are

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implementing those policies? It is a nonsense. Final word, briefly,

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Diane. Mo I respect Bernard Jenkin, but this is madness. Labour MPs are

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trying to unite behind Ed Miliband, particularly when we find out what

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our precise policies are. I am trying to save the union, because if

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we don't have the competence of settlement across the United

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Kingdom, Alex Salmond will be back having another row with Westminster

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and he will have another referendum, we have one last chance to save the

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union. I thought that just happened yesterday, but never mind, Bernard

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Jenkin, thank you for joining us, and Diane Abbott as well. It was a

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momentous night, not just in Scotland but for the whole of the

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Kingdom. Here is a reminder of how the events of the last 24 hours

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unfolded. It is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take Scotland's

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future into Scotland's hands. The BBC's forecast now is that

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Scotland has voted no to independence. CHEERING

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No, 194,638. Scotland has, by majority, decided

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not, at this stage, to become an independent country. I accept that

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verdict of the people. DRAMATIC MUSIC people who are

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disengaged from politics have turned out in large numbers.

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Just as the people of Scotland will have more power over their affairs,

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so it follows that the people of England, Wales and Northern Ireland

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must have a bigger say over theirs. I will finish the Daily Politics

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with Peter Hennessy. What an extraordinary 24 hours, we have

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never lived through 24 hours like this. Yesterday at this time, we

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were worried that the United Kingdom might be dissolved by this time on

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Friday. It hasn't. We wake up, we find ourselves in this vast

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constitutional building site without a plan, without even the sketchiest

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blueprint, and what we really need is to pause and to think, and to

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work out how to design something that fits all these multiplicity of

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needs. It has to be a royal commission or a convention of some

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kind. That doesn't meet the Gordon Brown timetable though, does it?

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There is a kind of mania abroad, for a country that is supposed to be

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phlegmatic and the mature is democracy in the world, we have gone

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slightly bonkers. I know there are many flaws in our system, of course

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you are a member of it, the House of Lords would be one that comes to

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mind... You are too kind! I know that, but politicians, right, left

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and centre, are they not being rather cavalier with something that

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has evolved over the years and wake up with a good idea and want to rip

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it apart? They are distilling their own frenzy, each one is feeding off

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the other, it is time for a bit of calmness, reason and a bit of

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careful R and D, both intellectual and political. I suppose what Gordon

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Brown was talking about is not as easy to come by as he was implying,

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but in the end that might be what needs to happen. You need eight

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consensus for long-lasting constitutional change, otherwise it

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won't insure. We have a genius, we Brits, for smart muddling through.

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This is muddling through without the Smart. When I interviewed you for my

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documentary, you were worried about the union now, but that fear in your

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mind has gone away for now. Just now. I do worry if we squeak out of

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the European Union in the next ten years, it will reopen the Scottish

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question, because they will vote to stay in the EU. In ten years time, I

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am not a pessimist, we could be out of the EU and without Scotland. We

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have to be very careful how we tread. Peter Hennessy, thank you

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very much, a pleasure to be with you.

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Thanks to David Aaronovitch, Anne McElvoy,

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I'll be back on BBC One this Sunday morning at 11.00am ,

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when the Sunday Politics will be live from the Labour party

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