The wind of change is blowing…and whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all accept it as a fact, and our national policies must take account of it.
That of which Harold Macmillan once spoke of Africa, we must now acknowledge as the status quo here in this disunited Kingdom. Since the 2010 Election, our state has been placed under ever increasing pressures, both material and ideological. It has been weakened by ever more factitious and byzantine party politics. Fracture after fracture, crack after crack, until we have been left with is a system of governance no longer fit for purpose, one which leaves us all vulnerable and isolated from each other and our state.
Matthew Heathcote’s pioneering report offers a comprehensive study of how policy makers in the UK can empower and strengthen our cities’ financial, social and political systems via federalised reform. It models how this can be done on practical examples within the German Republic.
This publication presents the personal views of the author and not those of The Constitution Society, which publishes it as a contribution to debate on this important subject.