How has devolution fared in Scotland since 1999?
May 8 2009 by Tomos Livingstone, Western Mail Continuing our focus on a decade of devolution, Political Editor Tomos Livingstone examines how Scotland has fared since 1999 DEVOLUTION might, in the famous phrase, be the “settled will of the Scottish people”, but cast your eye around Holyrood today and settled isn’t the word you’d use to describe the political landscape. As in Wales, arguments are flying over whether the status quo is the end of the devolution process, or merely a staging post. An SNP administration has skilfully survived since 2007 despite lacking a majority in the Scottish Parliament, and is still, in theory at least, committed to a referendum on Scottish independence.
