<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
 <rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">
  <channel>
   <title>New Statesman - <![CDATA[Graham Allen]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/graham_allen</link>
 
  <description><![CDATA[]]></description> 
   <language>en</language>



				
  <item>
   <title><![CDATA[Fear and Lothian]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/07/government-regions-lothian</link>
   <guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/07/government-regions-lothian</guid>
   <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:44:28 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Graham Allen</dc:creator>
  
  <description><![CDATA[<p><em>The democratic answer to the West Lothian Question is to follow through with devolution genuinely devolving power to the English regions, writes Labour's Graham Allen</em></p>

<p>Kenneth Clarke's latest efforts to "solve" the West Lothian Question tells us much about the determination of the leaderships of the main political parties in the UK to avoid the obvious answer.  If at the same time as devolving power to Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, we had devolved power to the regions of England, then this debate would be taking place after nearly a decade of English regional government.  <a href="http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2008/07/government-regions-lothian">[...]</a></p>
]]></description>
 </item>
    </channel>
</rss>