{"id":16012,"date":"2024-03-08T12:57:14","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T12:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/?p=16012"},"modified":"2024-03-25T09:58:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T09:58:54","slug":"options-and-challenges-for-waless-constitutional-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/2024\/03\/options-and-challenges-for-waless-constitutional-future\/","title":{"rendered":"Options and challenges for Wales&#8217;s constitutional future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 19.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #404040;\">The Independent Commission on the Constitutional Future of Wales reported in January 2024.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 19.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #404040;\">The Commission had both independent experts and party political nominees on it, produced a unanimous report, and found that the three main constitutional options they focused on &#8211; enhanced devolution, a federal UK and an independent Wales &#8211; were all viable (each with their own strengths and challenges).<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 19.5pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #404040;\"> In this new podcast, Kirsty Hughes talks to Dr Anwen Elias, Reader in politics at the Universi<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; color: #404040;\">ty of Aberystwyth and an expert member of the Commission about the findings of the Commission and its relevance to Scotland.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>httpss:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/kirstyhughes\/p\/the-constitutional-future-of-wales?utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm; line-height: 19.5pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her latest European Conversations podcast the author talks to a member of the independent commission on the constitutional future of Wales about its findings &#8211; and their relevance for Scotland<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":15016,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[40,58],"class_list":["post-16012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-devolution","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}