I’ve given Scotland on Sunday a preview of my IPPR report on devolution finance ‘Financing Devo More’ and they’ve given it generous coverage. There are news stories here and here, a comment piece by Guy Lodge and me regarding the wider politics of what I propose here, and an editorial here.
The paper should be available on Thursday, and we’re launching it at an event in Edinburgh on Friday. I’ll be writing more in due course to explain what the wider ‘Devo More’ project is about.
UPDATE, 22 January: Monday’s papers included coverage of the report’s implications for Wales in the Western Mail, available here. The Scotsman‘s coverage (here) included suggestions by David Mundell, Minister of State at the Scotland Office, that the unionist parties would have a collective ‘enhanced devolution’ position come the autumn, the first time he’s made any such suggestion.
The Herald had responses which included a general welcome from Alistair Darling of Better Together, and a dismissal of the proposals by Nicola Sturgeon. That’s available here. Sturgeon’s dismissal of the proposals is remarkable as the report not been published yet and so she can’t know its details. Despite the SNP’s earlier suggestions that it would have welcomed an ‘enhanced devolution’ option on the referendum ballot, it would seem determined to resist any actual proposal to deliver that.