I would like to see a future Labour government shift power from Westminster to the UK's other nations and regions. Yet how this might be done remains a daunting question - or set of questions.

Getting sensible answers requires us to look back twenty years to the North East Devolution Referendum of 2004. What went wrong there? Was it, as this piece suggests, a matter of campaign tactics and communication ? Or was there something amiss with the devolution proposal in itself?

North East Devolution Referendum 2004: The First Modern Election - Young Fabians

https://www.youngfabians.org.uk/north_east_devolution_referendum_2004_the_first_modern_election

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