Vote Plan Just Protects Tories ; Readers' Views

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CONTRARY to Anne McElvoy's analysis (2 July), Ken Clarke's Democracy Taskforce proposals for English votes on English-only measures are purely a contrivance to mitigate the West Lothian Question which arises from Scottish MPs' asymmetric voting privileges; it does not seek to answer the much broader English Question, which asks how England should be governed, by whom and for whom. Only the English can answer that question but unlike the Scots, Welsh and Northern Irish we are never asked.

It's plausible that the West Lothian Question is an anomaly the English are prepared to tolerate in order to preserve the Union but it has become party-politicised due to the English bias of the Tories and the Celtic bias of Labour.

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Vote Plan Just Protects Tories ; Readers' Views

So Clarke's solution should be seen as a wrecking mechanism to protect a Conservative opposition against a ...

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