Wouldn’t an English Parliament create two types of MP?
This argument is routinely rolled out by opponents of the English Parliament. In fact it was Gordon Brown’s stock answer on the rare occasions he was tackled on the English question. The truth is that devolution created four different types of MP. When the British government established the Scottish parliament many areas of legislation that were previously the responsibility of the UK parliament were transfered to the Scottish parliament. Responsibility for education, health, transport (see here for a full list of devolved issues) moved from Scottish MPs at Westminster to Members of the Scottish Parliament (MSPs). Scottish Westminster MPs can no longer directly influence devolved matters in their own constituency – they can however still influence those same matters in England where they are not accountable. So the Scottish Parliament created two types of MPs and the Welsh and Northern Irish assemblies added two more variants of MP. Re-establishing the English parliament will add anoth
