Devolution

Many of the campaigns I am involved with centre around maintaining and enhancing our country's sense of identity, and I do think that on a number of fronts, and my campaigns illustrate that, we are losing our identity, without the British people saying that is what they want as an outcome. Whereas one understands the Prime Minister's sensitivity in being a Scot and running, in effect, England, I believe his campaign for endlessly emphasising Britain at the expense of England is doomed to fail. What one most needs is to re-establish what we mean by being English, and when we have done that, we can see what the overlap of that identity is with a British identity. The consequences to politics of a country losing its identity is equivalent to an individual losing their own mind, and we all know what the outcome in those circumstances is.