Our Scottish Future Chair Professor Jim Gallagher delivered a key note lecture last week on the proposals by the Commission on the Future of the UK, published by Gordon Brown in December.
The plans drew on extensive research by Our Scottish Future as part of our efforts to build a new and positive plan for a changed UK.
The full text of the lecture, “Where now for the British constitution? Evaluating Labour’s constitutional proposals” can be read here.
It was given at St Andrew’s University.
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