English votes for English issues
Prospective Conservative Party leader, David Davis, yet again demonstrates forward-thinking policy initiatives - and the mettle to make commitments on which we Party members can base our voting intentions.
Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish MPs will be barred from voting on English laws if Conservative leadership hopeful David Davis becomes prime minister.
“Only English MPs could vote, let’s say, on English education policies or English health policies,” he said.
The government has been criticised for relying on votes of Scottish MPs to get controversial English laws through.
It almost doesn’t matter whether we think this is a good idea (although I’m pretty warm to excluding from voting people who will not have to live with the consequences of their votes). What’s exciting is that the Conservative Party is finally churning out ideas that we can debate.
Any more of this and there’s a danger that we’ll find ourselves with a proper political party on our hands again.
