Won’t an English Parliament, because England is 80% of the UK population, be too dominant, more powerful even than the UK Parliament itself?
This is the standard objection made by those who oppose devolution to England. For example, there is a body called the Constitution Unit. It is a collection of academics brought together under Government auspices to provide a rationale of its policy of denying devolution to England in any form that treats England as a national unit, specifically an English Parliament. Basically it wants to preserve the United Kingdom as it is, no matter what disadvantages the Union inflicts upon England and her people It puts it this way: “An English Parliament would appear to be a neat solution to the fundamental asymmetry in the devolution arrangements. It would create a federation of the four historic nations of the UK. The fundamental difficulty is the sheer size of England in comparison with the rest of the UK. England with four fifths of the population will be hugely dominant. On most domestic matters the English Parliament will be more important than the Westminster parliament. No federation has
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