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John Prescott MP, Hansard, September 2002:

"Regional assemblies represent a new tier of political accountability."

Gordon Brown MP, in a speech, to the University of Manchester Science and Technology Institute, Jan 2001:

"...where Britain becomes as it should be - a Britain of nations and regions..."

George Robertson MP, Scotland on Sunday, Aug 1995:

"The answer to the West Lothian question is the fact that our constitutional plans are not confined to Scotland and Wales. It will also embrace regional government in England, and that's a firm commitment too."

Lord Falconer, Secretary of State for Constitutional Affairs, in a speech to the ESRC Devolution and Constitutional Change Programme, March 2006:

"One of the purposes of devolution was to ensure fairness to the nations of the UK."

Gordon Brown, 1992 Sovereignty Lecture to Charter88:

“...it is because the Scottish parliament is the precursor for one in Wales and regional devolution throughout Britain that the West Lothian question - essentially that different M.P.s will have differing roles at Westminster - is not a genuine problem in proceeding with change.”

Gordon Brown, ‘The Politics of Nationalism and Devolution’ (1980):

“a revised Scotland Act could embody some form of the ‘in-and-out’ principle. Under such a principle the remaining Scottish MPs at Westminster would not be allowed to take part in the proceedings of the House when it was debating England or Welsh domestic matters. The ‘in-and-out’ principle ought to be attractive to Conservatives since it would ensure them a semi-permanent majority on most social issues at Westminster - no small prize. Labour remains formally committed to devolution and may be expected to consider a plan along these lines in the future.”