Devolution is now the most important question in British politics. On its resolution hangs the future unity of our country. During a full debate on the subject in the Lords on 29 October, Alistair Lexden went back to the years before the First World War when Home Rule for Ireland dominated British politics.
He ended by citing the proposals for a federal solution put forward by Joe Chamberlain, the centenary of whose death falls this year. They could help us in our grave constitutional difficulties today, he said.
Read the speech in Hansard