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Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives announced a plan on Tuesday to allow English lawmakers to veto over income tax and other matters only affecting England. Decades-old imbalances in the laws were pointed out in September, which triggered a last ditch promise to transfer powers to Scotland’s devolved parliament in order to get Scottish opinion in favour of keeping the United Kingdom together.
Both the governing Conservatives party and the opposition Labour party are anxious to address the fact that Scottish parliamentarians are allowed to vote on laws affecting only England when English lawmakers cannot vote on Scottish matters, however they have different approaches on how to do so. The Conservative plans to make lawmakers from across the United Kingdom debate and vote on matters affecting only England, but allow English lawmakers to decide the detail of such measures and veto over the final law. Conservative lawmaker, William Hague, explained that “the decisive say would be given to English MPs (lawmakers) over measures that only affect England … while maintaining the unity of parliament as a whole.”
Quite noticeably, the Conservatives voter base largely consists in England and the Labour has more Scottish lawmakers. Therefore, limiting the influence of Scottish lawmakers might leave a future Labour government without the votes needed to pass some laws. Consequently, Labour party has suggested to give greater power to English cities and regions and call for a constitutional convention to be held after the election to give voters a chance to air their views on the options.
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