Intergovernmental relations

Ten years on from the Brexit referendum, this blog post analyses where relations stand between the UK and devolved governments on regulating the UK’s domestic market. Specifically, using Wales as a case study, it focuses on the legal and political … [Read more...] about The UK Internal Market Act: What it’s Meant for Devolution

In 2019 the Welsh Government published a document, Reforming our Union: Shared Governance in the UK. It reissued an updated version in 2021 in which the First Minister, Mark Drakeford, stated that:  Too often we see the … [Read more...] about Welsh Devolution: The State of Intergovernmental Relations 

In this blog I examine the formal mechanisms governing relations between the Senedd and the Welsh Government. I begin with a brief overview that explains how the Welsh institutions have developed since 1999. Then I consider developments in the most … [Read more...] about Inter-institutional partnership: the Senedd and the Welsh Government

The four constituent nations of the United Kingdom exist within a unitary state which is not underpinned by the transparent checks and balances of a formal written constitution. Many are appalled when they realise that the UK’s uncodified … [Read more...] about Renewing Intergovernmental Relations: The Case for Reform